FRI 5 FEB 1943
Pacific
USAAF aircraft sink Japanese cargo vessels Shunko Maru off Finschafen and Hoshikawa Maru off Talasea.
Atlantic
Battle to protect convoy SC 118 continues; destroyers Babbitt (DD-128) and Schenck (DD-159), and Coast Guard cutter Ingham (WPG-35) arrive to reinforce the harried escorts. German submarine U-413 sinks U.S. freighter West Portal, a straggler from SC 118, in the North Atlantic, 52°00'N, 33°00'W. There are no survivors (12 Armed Guard sailors lost among them).
Forty survivors in boat from U.S. freighter Cape Decision, sunk by U-105 on 27 January, reach safety at Barbados (see 10 February).
Monday, February 5, 2018
Safety At Barbados
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