Thursday, January 12, 2017

Cannon Fodder Increase

MON 12 JAN 1942
General
Authorized enlisted strength of the U.S. Navy is increased to 500,000.

Pacific
Dutch army shore battery sinks Japanese minesweepers W.13 and W.14 off Tarakan, Borneo; destroyer Asagumo is damaged when she runs aground off Tarakan.

Japanese submarine I-121 mines Clarence Strait, the body of water connecting Van Diemen Gulf and the Timor Sea, off Australia's northern territory, at the approaches to Darwin, the Asiatic Fleet's main logistics base (see 16 January).

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