Destroyers Waste Ammo

FRI 30 JUL 1943
Pacific
Destroyers Farragut (DD-348) and Hull (DD-350), unaware that the Japanese garrison has been evacuated, bombard the Gertrude Cove and main camp areas on Kiska Island.

Atlantic
German submarine U-230 lays mines off entrance to Chesapeake Bay.

PV-1 (VB 127) providing coverage for convoy TJ-2 sinks German submarine U-591 off Pernambuco, Brazil, 08°36'S, 34°34'W.

PV-1 (VB 129) attacks German submarine U-604, South Atlantic (see 3 and 11 August 1943).

Aircraft (VC 29) from escort carrier Santee (CVE-29) sink German submarine U-43 in mid-Atlantic, 34°57'N, 35°11'W, breaking up a rendezvous between U-43 and U-403 and preventing U-43 from sowing mines in waters off Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.

Submarine chaser PC-624 sinks German submarine U-375 off Tunisia, 36°40'N, 12°28'E.

Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter William Ellery, en route from Basra, Iraq, to Durban, South Africa, is torpedoed by German submarine U-197 some 300 miles from her destination, 32°00'S, 36°00'E, but reaches it under her own power; there are no casualties among the 39-man merchant complement and the 27-man Armed Guard.

Fourth and last 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. All hands survive the ordeal of the loss of the ship and the ensuing open boat voyages.