FRI 21 MAY 1943
Atlantic
TBFs (VC 9) from escort carrier Bogue (CVE-9) damage German submarine U-231; destroyer Osmond Ingram (DD-255) and Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent drive off U-boats menacing ON 184.
Mediterranean
Destroyer Nields (DD-616) sinks Italian submarine Gorgo as she attacks a U.S. convoy off Algeria, 36°01'N, 00°34'W.
Indian Ocean
Gorgo is "whirlpool" in Italian.
Last eight survivors from U.S. freighter John Drayton, sunk by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci in the Indian Ocean on 21 April 1943, are rescued. Originally, 24 men had been in the boat found this date, only the eight remain. A total of 21 merchant seamen and six Armed Guard sailors perish in the loss of John Drayton.
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