Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Triton Sails For Eternal Patrol

SAT 6 MAR 1943
Pacific
TF 68, comprising three cruisers and seven destroyers (Rear Admiral Aaron S. Merrill), bombards Vila and Munda, Solomons and sinks Japanese destroyers Minegumo and Murasame in Kula Gulf, 08°05'S, 157°15'E.

Submarine Sawfish (SS-176) damages Japanese army cargo ship Clyde Maru southeast of Toizaki, 31°04'N, 131°48'E.
Launching Of U.S.S. Triton (SS-201) 1940
Submarine Triton (SS-201) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Kiriha Maru about 145 miles northwest of the Admiralties, 00°37'N, 145°30'E. Triton, which reports her success on 11 March, is never heard from again.
Fictionalized events of the previous patrol, Xmas Eve 1942, & THU 28 DEC 1942.
"The Triton's Christmas"
Indian Ocean
Last boatload of survivors from U.S. freighter Harvey W. Scott, torpedoed by German submarine U-160 off the coast of South Africa on 3 March, reaches shore safely.

Atlantic
German submarines locate convoy SC 121; escort group (Commander Paul R. Heineman) consists of Coast Guard cutter Spencer (WPG-36), destroyer Greer (DD-145), two Canadian corvettes, a British corvette and a rescue ship. Operations against this convoy will continue until 11 March.

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