CINCPAC & N>D Communiqué Press Releases WW2

CINCPAC COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 46, JUNE 11, 1944

A powerful Pacific Fleet Task Force struck enemy positions on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, in the Mariana Islands, with carrier aircraft on June 10 (West Longitude Date). Further details are not now available.

N. D. COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 524, JUNE 12, 1944

Mediterranean.

1. PC‑558 was sunk as a result of enemy action in the Mediterranean on May 9, 1944.

2. The next of kin of casualties have been notified.

 N. D. COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 525, JUNE 12, 1944

Pacific and Far East.

1.      U. S. submarines have reported sinking eighteen vessels as a result of operations against the enemy in these waters, as follows:

2.       

1 large tanker

1 medium transport

6 medium cargo transports 6 medium cargo vessels

4 small cargo vessels

 2. These actions have not been reported in any previous Navy De­partment communiqué.

CINCPAC PRESS RELEASE NO. 441, JUNE 12, 1944

 Carrier aircraft again struck Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan on‑ June 11 (West Longitude Date).

Truk Atoll was attacked by Liberators of the Seventh Army Air Force at night on June 9 and 10. Airfields at Param, Eten, Dublon and Moen Islands were principal targets. Several fires were started.

Ponape Island was bombed by Seventh Army Air Force Liberators on the night of June 9. Ponape Town and gun positions were hit.

Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two bombed Ocean Island during daylight on June 9, encountering moderate antiaircraft fire. Two of the planes continued to Nauru Island to strafe small craft there.

On June 10 Mitchells of the Seventh Army Air Force bombed Nauru, and started fires visible twenty miles. Heavy antiaircraft fire downed one Mitchell bomber. A Catalina search plane of Fleet Air Wing Two rescued the crew.

Enemy Positions in the Marshalls were bombed and strafed on June 9, during the night of June 9‑10, and on June 10. Corsair fighters and Dauntless dive bombers of the Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing, Catalina search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two and Navy Hellcat fighters participated in these attacks. Coastal defense guns and antiaircraft batteries were hit.