Communiqes 301-600 Preface (original) (raw)

NAVY DEPARTMENT

Communiqu�s

301 to 600

and

Pacific Fleet Communiqu�s

March 6, 1943, to May 24, 1945

With Other Official Statements

and Pertinent Press Releases

OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

UNITED STATES NAVY

For sale by the Superintendet of Doucments, U. S. Government Printing Office

Washington, D.C.�Price $1.00

FOREWORD

This publication, Volume II of Navy Department Communiqu�s, contains reprints of Navy Department Communiqu�s 301 to 600, which were issued during the period March 6, 1943 to May 24, 1945. With them in proper chronological sequence are communiqu�s issued by the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, at Pearl Harbor, T. H. and other points in the Pacific. The first volume of this series, Navy Department Communiqu�s 1 to 300, December 7, 1941‑March 5, 1943, was published in March 1943.

Augmenting the communiqu�s, in chronological sequence, are official state�ments concerning important contemporary events relating to the Navy's prose�cution of the war. These include the Proclamation by the President on the Surrender of Germany, the Joint Anglo‑American statements on submarine activities and anti‑submarine operations (the first made by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in July 1943), a statement regarding commands in the Pacific by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and pertinent press releases issued by the Navy at Washington and in the Pacific during the period covered by Communiqu�s 301‑600.

The original serial numbers of both the Navy Department Communiqu�s and those of the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, have been retained in Volume II.

The serial numbers of press releases of the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, are retained. Other releases carry only date of release.

With few exceptions, the statements contained in this volume were given to representatives of the press and radio for "immediate release."

HAROLD B. MILLER

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy

Director of Public Information

June 15, 1945

CONTENTS

Page

COMMUNIQU�S, NAVY DEPARTMENT NO. 301 TO NO. 600

(March 6, 1943 to May 24, 1945)

COMMUNIQU�S, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, PACIFIC FLEET AND PACIFIC OCEAN

AREAS, No. 11 To No. 372

(September 8, 1943 to May 24, 1945)

PERTINENT PRESS RELEASES ISSUED BY NAVY AT WASHINGTON, D. C., AND IN THE PACIFIC

(March 6, 1943 to May 24, 1945)

JOINT STATEMENTS, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL ON SUBMARINE WARFARE

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S PROCLAMATION ON SURRENDER OF GERMANY

Arranged in Chronological Sequence........................................................................... 1‑431

APPENDIX

COMMUNIQU�S, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, PACIFIC FLEET AND PACIFIC OCEAN AREAS, No. 1 To No. 10 431‑434

�� (June 4, 1942 to November 16, 1942)

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF U. S. NAVAL VESSELS ANNOUNCED SUNK, DESTROYED TO PREVENT CAPTURE, OR OVERDUE AND PRESUMED LOST . . . SINCE
DECEMBER 7, 1941 ....................................................................................... 435‑439

�� (May 24, 1945 )

MAPS

1.�� North Pacific and Bering Sea......................................................................................... 440

2.�� Paramushiru................................................................................................................. 441

3.�� Central Pacific ............................................................................................................. 442

4.�� Marianas ..................................................................................................................... 443

5. � Bougainville Area‑Solomon Islands ................................................................................ 444

6.�� New Georgia Group ..................................................................................................... 445

7.�� New Britain ................................................................................................................. 446

8.�� Far Pacific ................................................................................................................... 447

NOTE�Map with CINCPAC Press Release No. 707�The Allied Offensive in the Pacific. Page 319.

Index �� .............................................................................................................................. 448

ABBREVIATIONS

N. D.�Navy Department.

CINCPAC�Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas.

CINCPOA�Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, Ad�vance Headquarters.

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