"Their Tenuous Beachhead"

SAT 5 SEP 1942
Pacific
Japanese troops are withdrawn from their tenuous beachhead at Milne Bay. ["... first time a major Japanese operation had been comprehensively defeated." Papua New Guinea, if you didn't know either.]

High speed transports Gregory (APD-3) and Little (APD-4) are sunk by Japanese destroyers Yudachi, Murakumo, and Hatsuyuki off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, 09°20'S, 160°01'E.

Submarine Seal (SS-183) sinks Japanese merchant passenger-cargo ship Kanju Maru southeast of Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina, 11°00'N, 109°32'E.

Atlantic
British steamship City of Capetown rescues 19 survivors of U.S. freighter California, sunk by Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani on 13 August 1942 (see 14 September 1942).

One lifeboat with 28 survivors of U.S. tanker Jack Carnes torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-705 on 30 August 1942, reaches Terceira, Azores. The other 28 survivors (18 merchant seamen and 10 Armed Guard sailors) are never recovered.