"Battle Of The Pips"

MON 26 JUL 1943
Pacific
TG 16.7 (Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen) and TG 16.17 (Rear Admiral Robert M. Griffin) engage radar targets 90 miles southwest of Kiska. The contacts, however, prove to be phantom echoes on the U.S. radar screens, and the engagement becomes known as the "Battle of the Pips."

Indian Ocean
Third group of survivors from U.S. freighter Alice F. Palmer, torpedoed, shelled and sunk by German submarine U-177 on 10 July 1943, reaches safety at Mozambique (see 30 July 1943).

Caribbean
PBM (VP 32) sinks German submarine U-759, 18°06'N, 75°00'W.

Mediterranean
Off Palermo, Sicily, destroyer Mayrant (DD-402) is bombed and damaged by German horizontal bomber, 38°16'N, 13°20'E; minesweeper Skill (AM-115) helps tow the damaged destroyer into port where she can be repaired. Motor torpedo boat PT-202 is damaged by gunfire from German F-lighter.