Wednesday, June 20, 2018

"blown overboard and lost"

SUN 20 JUN 1943
Pacific
Submarine Seawolf (SS-197) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Shojin Maru, 24°39'N, 118°58'E.

Submarine Tautog (SS-199) sinks Japanese transport Meiten Maru west of the Marianas, 15°57'N, 140°55'E.

Atlantic
PBYs (VP 84) sink German submarine U-388, North Atlantic area, 57°36'N, 31°20'W, and damage U-420.

U.S. freighter Santa Maria is damaged by mine laid by German submarine U-214 five miles off Dakar, French West Africa, 14°34'18"N, 17°28'23"W, and is towed back to Dakar by French tugs. While there are no casualties among the merchant complement, one sailor of the 30-man Armed Guard is blown overboard and lost.

Covered lighter YF-401 founders in heavy weather, 35°7'N, 69°W. [Bermuda area.]

Mediterranean
Tank landing craft LCT-208 founders after grounding off coast of Algeria.

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