An item reported that two Vichy French submarines were sighted at Djibouti, French Somaliland. (1) Before they had been at Madagascar. The U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee did not believe that they would attack United Nations ships.
Note
1. Vichy France or the French State was until end 1942 an independent ally of Nazi Germany and since then fully controlled by Berlin until 1944.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 160 dated 19 May 1942
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