Good Bombing, Bad Seamanship

WED 6 JAN 1943
Pacific
Motor torpedo boats PT-22 and PT-24 are damaged in collision during storm, Dora Harbor, Unimak Island, Aleutians.

PBY sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Montreal Maru near Kiska, Aleutians, 53°28'N, 177°52'E.

USAAF B-24s sink Japanese merchant cargo ship Kotohira Maru off Holtz Bay, Attu, 53°00'N, 173°10'E.

USAAF B-17s and B-24s bomb Japanese shipping at Rabaul, New Britain, sinking army cargo vessel Keifuku Maru and damaging destroyer Tachikaze and cargo vessel Kagu Maru.

USAAF aircraft damage Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru off Kai Island, Banda Sea.

Atlantic
PBY-5A (VP 83) sinks German submarine U-164 off Brazil, 01°58'S, 39°23'W.

District patrol craft YP-492 is sunk in collision with YP-6713 off eastern Florida.