Sunday, December 17, 2017

"Unsuccessful Counterattack"

THU 17 DEC 1942
Pacific
Submarine Drum (SS-228) mines the Bungo Strait, Japanese home islands.

Submarine Grouper (SS-214) sinks Japanese army passenger-cargo ship Bandoeng Maru about 15 miles northwest of Cape Henpan, Buka Island, Solomons, 04°54'S, 154°17'E. Escorting submarine chaser Ch 29 carries out unsuccessful counterattack.

Atlantic
Coast Guard cutter Natsek (WPG-170) sinks after foundering in Belle Isle Strait off Newfoundland.

Twenty-five survivors from U.S. freighter Alcoa Ranger, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-174 on 14 December 1942, reach Natal, Brazil, by lifeboat.

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