SUN 13 JUN 1943
Pacific
Destroyer Frazier (DD-607) sinks Japanese submarine I-9 one and a half miles east of Sirius Point, Kiska, Aleutians, 52°08'N, 177°38'E.*
Submarine Guardfish (SS-217) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Suzuya Maru off the southwest coast of New Ireland, 03°08'S, 151°24'E.
Submarine Sargo (SS-188) attacks Japanese convoy 250 miles south of Yap, Carolines, and sinks army transport Konan Maru, 06°08'N, 138°28'E. The submarine is damaged by depth charges, 06°40'N, 136°59'E, but remains on patrol.
Atlantic
Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba (WPG-77) is sunk by explosion off Ivigtut, Greenland, 60°50'N, 52°00'W.
*Fleet Admiral King would have you believe the I-9 was "sunk 10 June 1943 N.E. of Attu by U.S. patrol craft".
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