Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Elihu B. Washburne Gets It

SAT 3 JUL 1943
Pacific
Submarine Scorpion (SS-278) attacks Japanese convoy in the Yellow Sea and sinks merchant cargo ships Anzan Maru and Kokuryu Maru, 38°20'N, 124°25'E.

Atlantic
U.S. freighter Elihu B. Washburne is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-513 off the coast of Brazil at 24°05'S, 45°25'W; all hands survive the attack (see 4 July 1943).

Submarine chaser SC-1048 rescues survivors (previously sighted by Navy blimp) from tanker Bloody Marsh, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-66 the previous day.

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