US NAVY
PACIFIC—Submarine Tuna (SS-203) sinks Japanese
transport Toyoharu Maru 65 miles off Sohuksando, Korea,
33°34'N,125°09'E.
ARCTIC—German planes bomb Allied shipping at Murmansk; U.S.
freighter Yaka suffers a direct hit that causes extensive damage but no
casualties to the 38 man merchant crew or the 11 man Armed Guard. The ship is
beached to prevent loss.
ATLANTIC—U.S. freighter Nicarao is torpedoed and
sunk by German submarine U-751 north of San Salvador, Bahamas,
25°20'N,74°19'W; eight of the 35 man merchant crew perish as they abandon ship.
The four man Armed Guard survives intact (see 16 May).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
ARMY AIR FORCES—Interceptor and pursuit organizations of
AAF are redesignated ‘fighter’.
US ARMY
NEW GUINEA—Australian
14th Brigade Group and 700 attached Australian AA troops start to Port Moresby
to bolster positions there.
INDIA—General Alexander moves HQ from Burma to Imphal area
of India. General Stilwell arrives in India.
LIBYA—British Eighth Army has completed most of its
preparations for offensive, but Rommel’s forces are showing signs of
forestalling it.
USSR—Germans announce capture of town and harbor of Kerch,
in the Crimea. Red Army continues offensive toward Kharkov.
US MARINE CORPS
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