SUN 28 FEB 1943
Pacific
TBF (VGS 11) bombs Japanese shipping at Buin, and completes destruction of previously damaged ammunition ship Hibari Maru.
Japanese cargo ship Kashii Maru is sunk in collision with Kasagisan Maru off Shimoda, Honshu, 34°39'N, 138°58'E.
Mediterranean
U.S. freighter Daniel Carroll in convoy TE 16, is torpedoed by German submarine U-371 off the coast of Algeria, 37°05'N, 04°02'30"E, but is towed by a British tug to Algiers, arriving there the following day; she suffers no casualties to either her merchant crew or her 27-man Armed Guard or 30 passengers.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Sunk In Collision
by
M. Bouffant
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