Nazis recruited ‘ignored’ youth, McNutt asserts
Contrasts NYA and CCC with lack of program in other countries
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U.S. War Department (May 9, 1942)
General MacArthur’s Headquarters No. 21
The great naval and air battle off the northeast coast of Australia has temporarily ceased.
This action represents the continued efforts of the Japanese to extend their aggressive conquests toward the south and southeast.
The first efforts aimed at expanding Japanese air bases, but our air force consistently and effectively attacked Japanese airfields during the past six weeks, dislocating Japanese plans through the destruction of installations and aircraft.
Our reconnaissance revealed a gradual building up of Japanese naval and transport elements for coordinated attack by combined forces, which was initiated several days ago. Our naval forces then attacked in interception.
They were handled with marked skill and fought with admirable courage and tenacity, and the enemy has been repulsed.
Our attacks will continue.
General MacArthur’s Headquarters No. 22
The enemy’s version of the battling off the northeast coast of Australia is entirely fictional and has no semblance of a true communiqué of fact.
It must be regarded in the light of propaganda rather than of a military report.
Japanese claims of damage inflicted on our naval forces are fantastic. Our losses compared with those of the Japanese were relatively light.
The only reason they are not published at present is because it would reveal valuable information.
U.S. Navy Department (May 9, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 79
Southwest Pacific.
The Navy Department realizes that the American public is aware of the unreliable nature of any claims emanating from an enemy source.
Recent announcements by the enemy have made sweeping claims regarding U.S. losses in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Reports received in the Navy Department to date fail to substantiate the loss of any U.S. aircraft carrier or battleship in that action.
Reports of damage to our forces are incomplete. They will be announced when the information will be without value to the enemy.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
The Pittsburgh Press (May 9, 1942)
ALLIED FLEET VICTORIOUS OVER JAPS IN 5-DAY BATTLE
Invasion threat remains; enemy lies about toll, MacArthur says
By Brydon C. Taves, United Press staff writer
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Capital jubilant at news of Japs’ biggest setback
Knox calls Battle of Coral Sea ‘magnificent victory’ – Navy cautions public not to believe enemy’s counterclaims of 'success’
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Airman dies saving crew
Pittsburgh pilot killed in South Pacific
By Harold Guard, United Press staff writer
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Pearl Harbor hero weds home-state girl
Honolulu, Hawaii (UP) –
Lt. Kenneth M. Taylor of Hominy, Oklahoma, who shot down two Japanese planes in the Pearl Harbor raid and won the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism, will be married today to Miss Flora Love Morrison of Dover, Oklahoma.
2 escaped Nazi aviators nabbed on waitress’ tip
Ottawa, Canada (UP) –
An observant waitress and a young policeman teamed yesterday to recapture two Nazi fliers who escaped from the war prisoners internment camps at Bowmanville, Ontario, on Tuesday.
The two Luftwaffe lieutenants, who have been sought throughout Canada and the northeastern United States, were spotted in an Ottawa café by waitress Elsie Ryan. Within half an hour after police received her tip, Constable Conrad Lavigne found them in suburban Eastview and arrested them.
They were turned over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be returned to the Bowmanville camp.
Bodies of fliers sought after crash of bomber
McChord Field, Washington (UP) –
Army crash boats searched Puget Sound near Ketron Island today for the bodies of three officers who apparently died when their bombing plane crashes into the water on a routine training flight.
Aboard the plane were:
- Lt. Col. Perry O. Huff, 41, of Silver Spring, Maryland.
- Capt. Angus C. B. MacPhee, 26, of Tacoma, Washington.
- Capt. R. C. Alexander, 45, of Seattle, Washington.
A board of inquiry was named to investigate the crash.