Subs & Planes, Again

SAT 31 JUL 1943
Pacific
Submarine Finback (SS-230) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Ryuzan Maru, 06°30'S, 111°30'E.

Submarine Grayling (SS-209) lands supplies and equipment at Pucio Point, Panay.

Submarine Guardfish (SS-217) lands survey party on west coast of Bougainville, Solomons.

Submarine Pogy (SS-266) sinks Japanese aircraft transport Mogamigawa Maru northwest of Truk, 11°08'N, 153°18'E.

Submarine Saury (SS-189), at periscope depth, is rammed by Japanese destroyer and damaged, Philippine Sea, 27°03'N, 135°27'E; consequently, Saury terminates her patrol.

Atlantic
PBM (VP 74) and Brazilian A-28 and Catalina

A Brazilian Catalina attacked and sank U-199 in Brazilian waters on 31 July 1943. Later, the aircraft was baptized as “Arará”, in memory of the merchant ship of that name which was sunk by another U-boat.

sink German submarine U-199 off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23°45'S, 42°57'W. Small seaplane tender Barnegat (AVP-10) rescues German survivors.