Saturday, December 30, 2017

Ten-Percenters Land On Ceram Island

WED 30 DEC 1942
Pacific
Submarine Greenling (SS-213) attacks Japanese convoy about 180 miles northeast of Manus, Admiralties, sinking army cargo ship Hiteru Maru and damaging cargo ship Ryufuku Maru, 00°41'N, 148°52'E.

Submarine Searaven (SS-196) lands agents on south coast of Ceram Island, N.E.I.

Submarine Thresher (SS-200) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Hachian Maru (ex-British Kinshan) about 120 miles west of Mata Siri Island, off southeast tip of Borneo, 04°45'N, 113°54'E.

Japanese coastal minesweeper M 2 is sunk by mine, Surabaya Harbor.

USAAF B-17s (5th Air Force) bomb Japanese shipping in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, sinking merchant cargo ship Tomiura Maru, 04°14'S, 152°11'E.

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