Saturday, September 2, 2017

Events Transpire

WED 2 SEP 1942
Pacific
Transport William Ward Burrows (AP-6) is damaged by grounding on Southern Cross Reef, off Tulagi, Solomons.

Submarine Flying Fish (SS-229) is damaged by depth charges off Truk, 07°46'N, 151°57'E, and ends her patrol.

Submarine Guardfish (SS-217) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Teikyu Maru (ex-Danish Gustav Diederickson) 13 miles southeast of Chikyu Mizaki, Hokkaido, Japan, 42°08'N, 141°15'E.

Atlantic
Storm separates the four rafts upon which survivors of U.S. freighter West Lashaway (sunk by German submarine U-66 on 30 August 1942) have gathered (see 13, 18 and 24 September 1942).

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