Sunday, May 6, 2018

Gar

THU 6 MAY 1943
Pacific
Submarine Gar (SS-206) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Kotoku Maru, Tarakan, Borneo, harbor, 03°14'N, 117°58'E.

Atlantic
U.S. freighter Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, bound for Bahia, Brazil, is torpedoed by German submarine U-195 in the South Atlantic at 15°00'S, 07°00'W, and abandoned (see 7 May 1943).

Fourteen survivors from U.S. freighter James W. Denver, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-195 in the North Atlantic on 11 April 1943, reach Port Etienne (see 16 May 1943).

Covered lighter YF-575 founders after grounding off Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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