Another Appendectomy Under The Sea

MON 14 DEC 1942
Pacific
Fleet Air Command, Nouméa, New Caledonia (Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher) is established.

Submarine Sunfish (SS-281) lays mines in entrance to Iseno Umi Bay, Japan. She continues these mining operations in those waters on 15, 16, and 17 December 1942.

On board submarine Grayback (SS-208), on war patrol in the Bismarck Archipelago, appendectomy commences (2300) by Pharmacist's Mate First Class Harry B. Roby, USNR, on Torpedoman First Class W.R. Jones (see 15 December).

Atlantic
U.S. freighter Alcoa Rambler is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-174 while en route from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to Santos, Brazil, 03°51'S, 33°08'W; one merchant seaman drowns when the ship is abandoned (see 17 December 1942).