SAT 26 DEC 1942
Pacific
Henderson Field, Guadalcanal-based SBDs, F4Fs, and P-38s attack Japanese transports at Wickham Anchorage, New Georgia, sinking merchant cargo ships Takashima Maru and Iwami Maru.
USAAF B-24 bombs Japanese shipping in St. George Channel, Solomons, damaging destroyer Ariake as she escorts damaged transport Nankai Maruand destroyer Uzuki (see 25 December).
USAAF B-17s damage Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, Rabaul.
Mine laid by submarine Trigger (SS-237) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Teifuku Maru four miles northeast of Inubosaki, Japan, 35°45'N, 140°55'E.
Japanese merchant cargo ship Izumi Maru is sunk by aircraft (possibly USAAF heavy bomber) South Seas area.
Atlantic
Submarine Barb (SS-220) mistakenly torpedoes neutral Spanish tanker Campomanes off Cape Finisterre.
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