Subs, A Mine & A Nice U-Boat

FRI 4 SEP 1942
Pacific
Submarine Growler (SS-215) sinks Japanese ammunition ship Kashino in Formosa Straits, about 50 miles northeast of Keelung, Formosa, 25°43'N, 122°38'E.

Submarine Guardfish (SS-217), operating off northeast coast of Honshu, sinks merchant cargo ships Kaimei Maru and Chita Maru at 40°14'N, 141°51'E, and passenger cargo ship Tenyu Maru at 40°12'N, 141°49'E, off Kuji Bay, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Submarine Pompano (SS-181) sinks guardboat No.27 Nanshin Maru northeast of Honshu, Japan, 35°22'N, 151°40'E.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Suki Maru is sunk by mine in Bangka Strait, N.E.I.

Atlantic
Unidentified German U-boat comes across one boat containing 19 survivors of U.S. freighter California, sunk by Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani on 13 August 1942 and provides rations and navigational assistance before departing (see 5 and 14 September 1942).