US NAVY
PACIFIC—Submarine Spearfish (SS-190) evacuates naval
and military officers, including nurses, from Corregidor. Those evacuees will
be the last to leave "The Rock" by this method.
Japanese
land on northern Mindanao.
Light
cruiser Nashville (CL-43) departs Pearl Harbor under orders to fuel at
Midway and then proceed on a foray into the Japanese fishing grounds off the
Kamchatka Peninsula. Submarines S-34 (SS-139) and S-35 (SS-140)
are to operate in support.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
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US ARMY
PHILLIPINE ISLANDS—Japanese
amphibious force from Panay goes ashore on Mindanao about 0100 at Cagayan and
Tagoloan River mouth, in Macajalar Bay, and presses S along Sayre Highway.
Troops of Cagayan defense sector (PA 102d Division, formed from 61st and 81st
FA and 103d Infantry) oppose landing but are unable to halt enemy. In a
desperate effort to hold Sayre Highway, reserves—2.95-inch gun detachment and
62d and 93d Regiments (PA)—are committed, but these, too, fall back under
pressure. During night 3–4, General Sharp orders general withdrawal. Meanwhile,
other Japanese forces gain control of road to N shore, routing
73d Infantry, which withdraws into hills N of Lake Lanao.
Still other enemy forces arrive at Kabacan after Digos force has made good its
escape, but are halted there. Preinvasion air and artillery bombardment of
Corregidor continues without let up. U.S. submarine succeeds in withdrawing 25 persons
from the island.
SOLOMON ISLANDS—Small Japanese force invades Tulagi, which
is soon converted into a seaplane base. Learning of this, Rear Admiral Frank J.
Fletcher, commanding naval force cruising the Coral Sea, heads for Tulagi in
carrier Yorktown.
US MARINE CORPS
Japanese occupy Tulagi, Solomons.
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