US NAVY
PACIFIC—Seaplane tender (destroyer) Thornton (AVD-11)
arrives at French Frigate Shoals, T.H., to relieve light minelayer Preble (DM-20)
on patrol station there. Japanese submarine I-123 arrives the same day
to find the Americans already there.
Seaplane
tender (destroyer) Ballard (AVD-10) arrives at Midway along with the
eleven motor torpedo boats from Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One (Lieutenant
Clinton McKellar Jr.); the latter are assigned to local defense forces of
Midway (Captain Cyril T. Simard).
PBYs (VP
71) and RAAF Catalinas bomb Japanese base at Tulagi, Solomons.
Small
reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-21 reconnoiters
Sydney, Australia (see 31 May).
Submarine Swordfish
(SS-193) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Tatsufuku Maru at the
southwestern entrance to Balabac Strait, 07°33'N, 116°18'E.
CARIBBEAN—Destroyer Tattnall (DD-125) rescues 26
survivors (including three Armed Guard sailors) of U.S. tanker New Jersey,
sunk on 28 May 1942 by German submarine U-103 (see 1 June 1942).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
INTERNATIONAL—Molotov, who has been in London since 20 May
for talks with Churchill, flies to Washington for conference with Roosevelt and
US JCS. These talks, which end 2 Jun, deal mainly with the signing of a 20- yr
Anglo-Soviet treaty for collaboration, shipments of material to USSR, and a
second front in 1942.
TENTH AF—4 Heavy Bombers hit Myitkyina airfield in
high-altitude strike. No activity is seen.
US ARMY
LIBYA—Upon
breaching mine fields in center of British Eighth Army’s position, enemy starts
passing vehicles through gaps despite British fire. Rommel’s main armored
forces, temporarily on the defensive until a supply route can be opened to
them, fall back southward under attack by armor of 30 Corps.
US MARINE CORPS
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