August 16, Sun.Obligatory:
Pacific
Submarine S-39 (SS-144), irreparably damaged by striking reef off Rossel Island, on 14 August, is abandoned.Airship L-8 (ZP-32) is damaged upon return from patrol off California coast, landing at Dale [sic] City, California.The airship, however, is unmanned; the fate of its two-man crew remains a mystery.[Complete mystery to your humble editor as well. Indeed, I'd never heard of it.]
The blimp finally came to rest atop Richard Johnston's freshly waxed car in Daly City, Calif.,
just South of San Francisco. (National Archives)
Atlantic
Surviving 38 merchant seamen and the 13-man Armed Guard of U.S. freighter Cripple Creek, sunk by German submarine U-171 on 13 August, are rescued by British armed trawler HMS St. Wistan and transported to Sierra Leone. [Told you. No damn Nazi U-Boat can be off Sierra Leone & in the Gulf Of Mexico on the same day!]
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