(This report is about the Battle of the Makassar Strait. Two U.S. cruisers were damaged, but no warships, on either side, were sunk. Up to this point in the war, no Japanese cruisers had been sunk. Mikuma was the first Japanese cruiser sunk which happened at the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942.)

(The Navy was the source for this propaganda piece. After claiming that 80 U-boats were in the waters off the U.S. east coast, and later claiming that they had sunk or damaged no less than 20 of them, now they state that the war against U-boats is "meeting with increasing successes." The U-boat offensive, Operation Paukenschlag, [Operation Drumbeat,] which started on Jan. 13, consisted of only six U-Boats. Furthermore, the total number of U-boats sunk by U.S. forces to date was zero.

The Navy knew there were only six U-boats operating off the coast because the British told them they were on the way. The Navy positively knew they had not sunk a single U-boat, because there had been no physical evidence of a sinking and there had not been one single German sailor recovered from the water. If they had thought they probably sank any is not known to me, but they knew the number was certainly not twenty. The first U-boat sunk by U.S. forces was U-656, which was sunk on Mar. 1, 1942 by a Lockheed Hudson flown by Ens. William Tepuni, USNR of VP-82. This was off Newfoundland. A second, U-503, was sunk off Newfoundland by VP-82 on Mar. 15th. The first U-boat sunk off the U.S. east coast was U-85, which was sunk by USS Roper DD-147 on Apr. 14, 1942.)

(USA and Great Britain on the defensive everywhere.)

(Significant successes in North Africa.)