Bureaucracy & Bombing Continue

SAT 15 MAY 1943
TRIDENT Conference begins, with President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meeting in Washington, D.C.

Pacific
Naval Advanced Base and Naval Air Facility, Russell Islands, Solomons, are established.

Naval Air Station, Adak, Aleutians, is established.

Submarine Gar (SS-206) attacks Japanese convoy screened by escort vessel Matsuwa, at eastern entrance of Verde Island passage, and sinks Japanese army cargo ships Meikai Maru and Indus Maru between Dumali Point, Mindoro, and Marinduque Island, P.I., 13°07'N, 121°49'E.

USAAF B-24s, flying from Midway, bomb Wake Island.

Atlantic
OS2U/OS2N (VS 62) and Cuban Submarine Chaser 13 sink German submarine U-176 off Cuba, 23°21'N, 80°18'W.