WED 5 MAY 1943
Pacific
Submarine Permit (SS-178) damages Japanese transport Tokai Maru, Apra Harbor, Guam, 13°27'N, 144°35'E.
Submarine Sawfish (SS-276), despite proximity of escort vessel, sinks Japanese gunboat Hakkai Maru off Ise-Wan, Honshu, Japan, 34°11'N, 137°41'E.
Submarine Snook (SS-279) attacks Japanese merchant shipping in the Yellow Sea, sinking cargo ships Kinko Maru, 38°39'N, 122°35'E, and Taifuku Maru 38°38'N, 122°39'E.
Twenty-three survivors from U.S. freighter Phoebe A. Hearst, torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-19 about 240 miles southeast of Suva on 30 April, reach Tofua Island; motor minesweeper YMS-89 picks them up and transfers them to Tongatabu (see 14 May).
Atlantic
German submarine attacks upon ships of convoy ONS 5 continue: U.S. freighter West Madaket is torpedoed by U-707 at 54°47'N, 44°12'W, and abandoned. British frigate HMS Pink rescues the 39-man merchant complement and the 22-man Armed Guard and then scuttles the crippled vessel with depth charges.
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