MON 19 JUL 1943
Pacific
Japanese planes bomb airfield at Funafuti.Submarine Porpoise (SS-172) sinks Japanese transport No. 20 Mikage Maru 50 miles south of Wake Island, 18°45'N, 166°04'E; vessels of Submarine Chaser Division 32 (Ch 28, Ch 29, and Ch 30 comprise the division) carry out unsuccessful counterattacks.
Atlantic
PBM (VP 74) sinks German submarine U-513 off Santos, Brazil, 27°17'S, 47°32'W; small seaplane tender Barnegat (AVP-10) rescues survivors. Ironically, this same day two boatloads of survivors from U.S. freighter Richard Caswell, torpedoed and sunk by U-513 on 17 July 1943, are rescued by Argentine steamship Mexico (see 22 July 1943).
German submarine U-134 is damaged by aircraft, DM 2925*.
Mediterranean
During German air attack upon shipping off Avola, Sicily, U.S. freighter Samuel Parker is straddled and damaged by near-misses of bombs, but suffers no casualties to either the merchant complement or the Armed Guard.
*No idea.
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