Same Old Shit, But Who Knows Which Day It Is, Exactly?

MON 5 OCT 1942
Pacific
Planes from carrier Hornet (CV-8) (Rear Admiral George D. Murray) bomb Buin-Tonolei area and Faisi, Bougainville, Solomons.

SBDs (VS 3, VS 71, VMSB 141) from Henderson Field attack Japanese convoy, damaging destroyers Minegumo and Murasame 150 miles from Guadalcanal.

PBY (COMAIRSOPAC) sinks Japanese submarine I-22 near Indispensable Strait, Solomons.

Submarine Trigger (SS-237) damages Japanese transport Shinkoku Maru, 31°40'N, 142°06'E.

U.S. tanker Camden, torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-25 the previous day and abandoned, is taken in tow by tug Kenai see 10 October 1942).

Atlantic
PBY (VP 73) sinks German submarine U-582 at 58°52'N, 21°42'W.

German submarine U-175 torpedoes, shells, and sinks U.S. freighter William A. McKenney about 50 miles east of Corocoro Island, Venezuela, 08°35'N, 59°20'W; one man is killed. Destroyer Blakely (DD-150) rescues the survivors (30 merchant seamen and the 4-man Armed Guard).

British corvette HMS Borage rescues the 24 merchant seamen and nine Armed Guard sailors from the after section of U.S. tanker Robert H. Colley (the ship had been torpedoed by German submarine U-254 the previous day). Borage scuttles the stern section of the ship with gunfire and depth charges.