US NAVY
PACIFIC—District patrol craft YP-277 is destroyed by
fire after striking U.S. mine at French Frigate Shoals, T.H.
Small
reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-29 reconnoiters
Sydney, Australia.
CARIBBEAN—U.S. tanker Samuel Q. Brown is torpedoed
by German submarine U-103 south of the Yucatan Channel, 20°15'N,84°38'W;
two merchant seamen die at the outset. After the U-boat surfaces and the
Germans ask the identity of the ship and her cargo, the survivors (37 merchant
seamen and the 16 man Armed Guard) gather in two lifeboats. Later that day, a
Navy plane from the Panama Canal Zone rescues five wounded men (see 24 May and
25 May).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
EIGHTH AF—Agreement is reached on plan to transfer repair
depot at Burtonwood to US forces following period of joint control to begin at
end of Jun. Burtonwood later becomes greatest AAF depot overseas.
FIFTH AF—B‑25’s strike airfield and buildings at Lae.
US ARMY
ALEUTIANS—U.S. fighter aircraft land safely on runway at
new air base on Umnak Island.
USSR—Continuing counteroffensive in Kharkov area, Germans
isolate Red Army forces in Izyum salient W of the Donets.
US MARINE CORPS
Training Center, Fleet Marine Force, organized at Marine
Barracks, New River, North Carolina, to include all Fleet Marine Force units
and replacements except the 1st Marine Division.
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