"Bloody Marsh ... is torpedoed and sunk"

FRI 2 JUL 1943
Pacific
Japanese naval and army aircraft bomb Rendova, Solomons; Japanese light cruiser Yubari and nine destroyers bombard the beachhead. Motor torpedo boats PT-156, PT-157, and PT-161 engage the enemy, but inflict no damage.

Motor torpedo boats PT-153 and PT-158, damaged by grounding, Solomons, 08°20'S, 157°15'E, are beached and abandoned.

Submarine Flying Fish (SS-229) sinks Japanese merchant troopship Canton Maru off China coast, about 80 miles northeast of Amoy, 25°07'N, 119°18'E.

Submarine S-35 (SS-140) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship (crab-catcher) No.7 Banshu Maru off the west coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, Aleutians, 52°30'N, 156°12'E.

Submarine Trout (SS-202) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Isuzu Maru off north coast of Marinduque Island, P.I., 13°36'N, 121°49'E.

USAAF B-25 and USN F4Us sink Japanese auxiliary minelayer Kashi Maru off New Georgia.

Atlantic
U.S. tanker Bloody Marsh, en route from Houston, Texas, to New York City, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-66 at 32°45'N, 78°45'W; three merchant sailors are lost in the initial explosion (see 3 July 1943).