Subs, Sunken & Sinking

MON 8 MAR 1943
Pacific
Submarine Permit (SS-178), attacking Japanese convoy off northern tip of Honshu, sinks merchant cargo ship Hisashima Maru, 41°16'N, 142°27'E.

Atlantic
PBY-5 (VP 53) sinks German submarine U-156, West Indies area, 12°18'N, 54°39'W.

Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter James B. Stephens, independently bound for Durban, is torpedoed by German submarine U-160 off the coast of South Africa, 28°53'S, 33°18'E; one Armed Guard sailor drowns in the abandonment after the ship breaks in two. The forward half ultimately sinks while under tow toward Durban; the after half is scuttled with gunfire (see 11 and 14 March).