WED 7 OCT 1942
Pacific
Submarine Amberjack (SS-219) sinks Japanese supply ship Senkei Maru, southern Carolines, 01°55'N, 153°01'E.
Submarine Sculpin (SS-191) sinks Japanese army transport Naminoue Maru off Rabaul, 03°14'S, 150°01'E.
Japanese merchant cargo ship Midori Maru founders and sinks above Woosung, China.
Atlantic
U.S. freighter Chickasaw City is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-172 approximately 85 miles south-southwest of Cape Town, South Africa, 34°00'S, 17°16'E; 5 of the 37-man crew, 1 of the 11-man Armed Guard and the sole passenger perish in the attack (see 8 October and 2 November 1942).
U.S. freighter John Carter Rose is attacked by German submarine U-201; one dud torpedo fails to damage the merchantman and Armed Guard gunfire drives off the ship's assailant (see 8 October 1942).
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