Return of The U.S.S. George Stevens (SS-234)

FRI 23 OCT 1942
Pacific
Submarine Kingfish (SS-234) sinks Japanese gunboat Seikyo Maru at entrance to Kii Suido, Honshu, 33°20'N, 135°27'E.

USAAF B-17s damage Japanese submarine chasers Ch 31 and Ch 32 at Rabaul.

Japanese submarine I-7 shells Espiritu Santo.

Atlantic
U.S. freighter Reuben Tipton, bound for Trinidad, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-129; three merchant seamen are killed in the attack (see 25 and 26 October 1942).