MON 23 AUG 1943
Pacific
Coastal minesweeper Crow (AMc-20) is sunk by erratic running friendly aircraft torpedo, Puget Sound, Washington.
Submarine Grayling (SS-209) delivers supplies to Filipino guerrilla forces on Panay.
Submarine Paddle (SS-263) sinks Italian merchant passenger/cargo ship Ada off Hamamatsu, Japan, 34°37'N, 137°53'E.
Japanese transport Heito Maru is sunk by Allied aircraft east of Car Nicobar.
Mediterranean
Tug Narragansett (AT-88) is damaged, and submarine chasers SC-694 and SC-696 are sunk, by German JU-88s off Palermo, Sicily, 38°08'N, 13°22'E.
U.S. freighter Pierre Soule en route from Sicily to Bizerte, Tunisia, is torpedoed by German submarine U-380, 38°21'N, 12°50'E. Tug Nauset (AT-89) tows the damaged freighter to Bizerte, arriving the following morning. There are no casualties.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Friendly Torpedo
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