Enemy submarine shelled the Johnston and Palmyra Islands according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 24 December 1941

An item referred to CINCPAC reporting that an enemy submarine shelled the Johnston and Palmyra Islands [Atolls].

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 14 dated 24 December 1941.