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Enemy submarine sighted near atoll Kapingamarangi according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 11 January 1942

An item reported that on 7 January aircraft of the Australian R.A.A.F. attacked the atoll Kapingamarangi [Pohnpei, Federal States of Micronesia and which sighted an enemy submarine. The J.I.C. commented this was the first indication that submarines operated from this location.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 11 January 1942 No. 32. 

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