9.5° List

MON 31 AUG 1942
Pacific
Eight Japanese destroyers put ashore 1,000 troops of the Kawaguchi Detachment on Guadalcanal.

Carrier Saratoga (CV-3) is torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-26, 260 miles southeast of Guadalcanal, 10°34'S, 164°18'E.

USS Saratoga (CV-3) on September 8, 1942 listing at 9.5° whilst under repair at Tongatabu, after being torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-26 (LCDR Yokota) on August 31.

USS Saratoga (CV-3) on September 8, 1942 listing at 9.5° whilst under repair at Tongatabu,
after being torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-26 (LCDR Yokota) on August 31.

Destroyer Reid (DD-369) and PBYs (VP 42, VP 43) sink Japanese submarine RO-61 off Atka, Aleutians, 52°36'N, 173°57'W.

Submarine Growler (SS-215) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Eifuku Maru in Formosa Strait, 25°43'N, 122°38'E.

Atlantic
Storm separates the two lifeboats with survivors from U.S. tanker Jack Carnes, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-705 at 42°00'N, 28°05'E (see 5 September 1942).