TUE 3 NOV 1942 Pacific
Submarine Haddock (SS-231) sinks merchant cargo ship Tekkai Maru in the East China Sea between Shanghai and Korea, 32°02'N, 126°13'E.
Submarine Seawolf (SS-197) sinks Japanese transport Sagami Maru off Davao, P.I., 07°02'N, 125°33'E.
The Eyes of the Seawolf
The sinking is dramatized at (14:27).
Submarine Tambor (SS-198) sinks merchant cargo ship Chikugo Maru in Tonkin Gulf, northwest of Hainan Island, 21°18'N, 108°39'E.
Atlantic
U.S. tanker Hahira, in convoy SC 107, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-521 approximately 400 miles south of Cape Farewell, 54°15'N, 41°57'E; two crewmen and one Armed Guard sailor are killed in the attack. British rescue ship Southport rescues the 36 surviving crewmen and 17 Armed Guard sailors.
U.S. freighter East Indian is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-181 300 miles southwest of the Cape of Good Hope; 17 of the 47-man crewmen and 6 of the 12 passengers perish (see 16 November 1942).
U.S. freighter George Thatcher, torpedoed by German submarine U-126 on 1 November 1942 and abandoned, eventually sinks.
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