Attack Off Oregon, Collision Off Hawai'i!

October 4, Sun.
Pacific
Destroyers Drayton (DD-366) and Flusser (DD-368) are damaged in collision during exercises in Hawaiian Operating Area.

Submarine Greenling (SS-213) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Setsuyo Maru off Sanriku, 39°48'N, 142°08'E.

U.S. tanker Camden is torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-25 off the coast of Oregon, 43°42'N, 124°52'W, and is abandoned. One crewman drowns as the men leave the ship. Swedish motorship Kookaburra rescues the 38 merchant seamen and the 9 Armed Guard sailors (see 5 October 1942).

Caribbean
U.S. freighter Caribstar is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-175 off the mouth of the Orinoco River, 08°30'N, 59°37'W. The 29-man merchant crew suffers 4 dead and 13 wounded (two of whom later die of their wounds); there are no casualties among the 6-man Armed Guard. Submarine chaser PC-469 rescues survivors.

Atlantic
U.S. tanker Robert H. Colley, in convoy HX 209, is torpedoed by German submarine U-254 at 59°06'N, 28°18'W, and breaks in two, with the forward part sinking first. Twenty of the 44-man merchant complement perish, as do eight of the 17 Armed Guard sailors (see 5 October 1942).