The Patrol Zone

Atlantic.
1. The Escort Carrier USS Block Island was sunk in the Atlantic during May, 1944 as the result of enemy action.
2. The next of kin of casualties, which were light, have been notified.

Several enemy patrol-type vessels were sighted west of Truk Atoll on June 2 (West Longitude Date) and attacked by a single search plane. One was probably sunk and all were heavily strafed. On June 3 another search plane sighted the disposition and made an attack which resulted in the sink­ing of one of the auxiliaries [...]

Pacific and Far East.
1. U. S. submarines have reported the sinking of sixteen vessels in operations against the enemy in these waters, as follows:
1 large transport
1 large cargo vessel
7 medium cargo vessels
2 small cargo vessels
4 medium cargo transports
1 small cargo transport
2. These actions have not been reported in any previous Navy Department communiqué.

A single search plane of Fleet Air Wing Two bombed and strafed ship­ping and shore installations at Truk Atoll at night on June 1 (West Longi­tude Date). Four one-thousand-pound bombs were dropped over a medium cargo vessel, two of them scoring direct hits and two straddling the vessel, which was believed sunk. The search plane [...]

Shimushu in the Kurile Islands was bombed by Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Four before dawn on May 31 (West Longitude Date). Several large and small fires were started in the vicinity of the airfield. Antiaircraft fire was moderate. All of our planes returned.