Vichy Bastards Sunk

SAT 15 JAN 1944
Pacific
Service Squadron 10 (Captain Worrall R. Carter) is activated at Pearl Harbor to provide mobile logistics support for a projected advanced major fleet anchorage in the Central Pacific Area.*

Fuel oil barge (self-propelled)VYO-159, torpedoed the previous day by Japanese submarine RO-42 is scuttled by gunfire of submarine chaser PC-1138 (see 14 January).

Submarine Crevalle (SS-291) lays mines east of Saigon, French Indochina. [Funny. Can't find this "Saigon" or "French Indochina" on a map. — M.B.]

Submarine Thresher (SS-200), in attack on Japanese convoy, sinks army cargo ship Toho Maru and merchant tanker Tatsuno Maru about 75 miles north of Luzon, 20°00'N, 120°51'E.

British submarine HMS Tally Ho sinks Japanese army cargo ship Ryuko Maru south of Port Blair, Andaman Islands, 10°03'N, 93°05'E.

USAAF B-25 sinks Vichy French coast patrol craft Ping Sung off Hongay, French Indochina.

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*SERVRON 10 was based at Majuro (February-May 1944), Eniwetok (June-September 1944), Ulithi (October 1944-April 1945), and Leyte-Samar, P.I. (May-August 1945), during the war. At the height of its activities, the squadron controlled 609 vessels at five fleet anchorages.