Hooray, Hooray, The First Of May ...

MAY

SAT 1 MAY 1943
Pacific
Submarine Pogy (SS-266), in attack on Japanese convoy, sinks gunboat Keishin Maru off Iwaki, Japan, 37°04'N, 141°06'E.

PBY rescues eight survivors from U.S. freighter Phoebe A. Hearst, torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-19 about 240 miles southeast of Suva the day before (see 5 and 14 May).

The wondering need wonder no longer: Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919; one of millions of victims of the influenenza pandemic.) was William Randolph Hearst's mother.

[Now one-third through this annus horribilis, if you haven't been paying attention.]