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16 May 1945
Summary
US Navy — US Navy press release reports fifteen repatriated sailors, including PT 509 survivor John L. Page.
Location Details
Channel Islands; Southampton
Diary Entry
16 May 1945 US Navy release announces sailors recovered from the Channel Islands
Editorial note: Publication date, not a further combat incident. The dateline is Southampton, 15 May. Page’s action testimony is placed under 9 August 1944, and the Jersey liberation account under 9 May 1945. The supplied source also contains PC 546/PC 564 wording; this compilation does not resolve that vessel-number discrepancy.
The US Naval Forces in Europe release Missing US Sailors Found on Channel Islands is numbered 32 and dated 16 May 1945, with a Southampton dateline of 15 May. It reports fifteen US sailors repatriated from a Channel Island prison camp and awaiting return to the United States. Fourteen were associated with PC 546; the fifteenth was John L. Page, Radioman Third Class, USNR, described as possibly the sole survivor of PT 509. [I pages 631–633]
Source of Information
US Navy. US Naval Forces in Europe, release 32 dated 16 May 1945, Missing US Sailors Found on Channel Islands, source set I, pages 631–633. Supplied compilation: Jersey Convoy Action 13 to 14 August 1944.docx. Set letters and page or screenshot numbers refer to that compilation.