Current Events June 7, 1942: JAPANESE FLEET REPULSED AT MIDWAY:

                  The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake, City, Sunday Morning June 7, 1942

U. S. Sinks Two Plane Carriers,

Damages 11 Other Jap Vessels

Americans Blast Three Battleships,

Four Cruisers of Nippon Fleet

In Momentous Sea Fight Off Midway

Here is the box score of the losses sustained by the

first great hostile fleet to enter American waters In the

eastern Pacific:

Sunk 0r Damaged

Aircraft Carriers 2 (or 3) 1 (or 2)

Battleships 3

Cruisers 4

Transports 3

And all the warplanes carried by from three-to five

airplane carriers were lost.

U. S.—(Official) By Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, Honolulu, June 6—United States armed

forces have sunk or damaged 13 to 15 warships and transports

of the repulsed Japanese invasion fleet at Midway island and

"a momentous victory is in the making." These include the sinking

of two, and possibly three, aircraft carriers.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the

Pacific fleet, enumerated enemy losses Saturday night in his

third communique on the great and continuing battle in the

Pacific.

"Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged," Admiral

Nimitz said.

Citizens Can Rejoice

"Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed

forces of all branches in the Midway area," the communique

said, "our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is

in the making.

"It was on a Sunday just six months ago that the Japanese

made their peacetime attack on our fleet and army activities

on Oahu. At that time, they created heavy damage, it is true,

but their act aroused grim determination of our citizenry to

avenge such treachery, and it raised, not lowered, the morale of

our fighting men.

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