Submarine Barb Sinks Train

MON 23 JUL 1945
Pacific
DesRon 61* concludes its engagement with a Japanese convoy off Sagami Bay, sinking No.3 Hakutetsu Maru off Mora, Chiba prefecture, 34°54'N, 139°50'E.

Submarine Barb (SS-220) lands an eight-man commando party which blows up a Japanese train on east coast of Karafuto.

Submarine Hardhead (SS-365) sinks Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 117 off Java, N.E.I., 08°10'S, 115°29'E.

Submarine Sea Poacher (SS-406) sinks Japanese guardboat No.2 Kiri Maru between Onoosaki and Shoyasaki, Japan, 37°16'N, 141°04'E.

Mines sink Japanese guardboat No.2 Taisho Maru off Chinhae, Korea; merchant tug Kaiko Maru and cargo ship Shoko Maru off Niigata; merchant cargo ships No.1 Taiha Maru and No.2 Taishin Maru off Moji; No.6 Nissho Maru, Kammon Strait; Yamadori Maru outside Wakamatsu harbor, and merchant cargo ship No.2 Tsurukawa Maru off Wakamatsu, and merchant vessel Kocho Maru off Mutsure; and damage merchant cargo ship Gizan Maru near Moji.

USAAF B-24s (5th Air Force) on anti-shipping sweep off south coast of Korea sink Japanese merchant tanker No.15 Horai Maru off Hokko, 36°02'N, 129°23'E.

Japanese merchant cargo ship No.5 Adaka Maru is damaged by aircraft, 34°36'N, 130°55'E.

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*This reporter's immediate male ancestor was in DesRon 61, aboard the U.S.S. Samuel N. Moore (DD-747).