MON 23 November 1942 Atlantic
Aircraft escort vessels Sangamon (ACV-26) and Chenango (ACV-28) are damaged by heavy seas, North Atlantic.
U.S. tanker Caddo, en route from Baytown, Texas, to Iceland, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-518 at 42°25'N, 48°27'E, and abandoned, with the 58 men on board (42-man merchant complement and 17-man Armed Guard) [Check the math. — M.B.] taking to three lifeboats. U-518 briefly interrogates survivors, taking ship's master and another officer as prisoners, and departs after the German offer of cigarettes is refused (see 7 and 8 December).
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