The US Navy partially decoded a Japanese message concerning a large force preparing to invade "AF". Navy Cryptanalyst Joseph Rochefort suspected it was Midway Island, but as AF was not known with certainty, a message in the clear was subsequently broadcast from Midway that its desalination plant had broken down, which the Japanese picked up, and rebroadcast as an intelligence report in regard to "AF".
The Mexican oil tanker Petrero del Llano was sunk by a German submarine.
Today in World War II History—May 14, 1942: US Navy begins full convoys on East Coast as the first convoy departs from Hampton Roads, VA, for Key West, FL.
So notes Sarah Sundin's blog.
She also noted that Australia commenced rationing of food and clothing on this day, something I had never considered, in the Australian context, before reading about it on her site.
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