Monday, June 22, 2020

More Mining

FRI 22 JUN 1945
Pacific
High speed transport Barry (APD-29) (previously damaged twice by kamikazes) sinks as the result of damage received the previous day (see 24 May 1945 and 21 June).

Off Okinawa, kamikazes damage high speed minesweeper Ellyson (DMS-19), 26°04'N, 127°55'E; and tank landing ship LST-534, 26°18'N, 127°49'E; medium landing ship LSM-213 is damaged by operational casualty.

Motor minesweeper YMS-10 is damaged by shore battery, Balikpapan, Borneo, 01°18'S, 116°51'E.

USAAF B-29s (162 strong) bomb naval facility at Kure, Japan, destroying the incomplete submarines I 204 and I 352, and damaging escort destroyer Nire and submarine RO 67.*

Submarine Crevalle (SS-291) damages Japanese escort destroyer Kasado, 43°23'N, 139°47'E.

Submarine Parche (SS-384) sinks unnamed Japanese fishing boat, 42°08'N, 140°58'E.

Submarine Piranha (SS-389) damages Coast Defense Vessel No.196, 39°32'N, 142°11'E.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Air Force) sink Japanese merchant cargo ships Yubu Maru in Kammon Channel, 34°00'N, 131°00'E, Tokasegawa Maru off Tsutura, in Kammon Channel, 33°55'N, 131°20'E, Taigen Maru near Kammon Channel, 34°00'N, 130°30'E, and Ungetsu Maru north of Mutsure, and damage transport Tatsumiya Maru one kilometer off Ganryu Jima Light.

PB4Y-2s (VPB 118), flying from Okinawa, continue aerial mining of waters of Korean archipelago, sowing mines in waters in channel between Hikin-To, Iion-To, and Gantai-To.

PBMs bomb lighthouse and Japanese shipping off south coast of Korea, 36°55'N, 125°47'E.

Mediterranean
U.S. freighter Pierre Gibault, en route from Izmir, Turkey, to Oran, Algeria, is damaged by mine off Kythera Island 36°04'30"N, 26°06'30"E. Greek destroyer escort Themosticles takes off the wounded (seven Armed Guard sailors) and dead (two merchant sailors and two Armed Guards) soon thereafter. The ship, beached on 26 June 1945 off Kythera Island is subsequently written off as a total loss.

*162? Lotta aircraft to damage so few boats.

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