Pompano Departs (For Eternal Patrol)

FRI 20 AUG 1943
Pacific
Destroyer Pringle (DD-477) is damaged by Japanese strafing and near-miss of bombs while transiting Gizo Strait, Solomons; tank landing ships LST-354 is damaged by near-misses of bombs, off Barakoma.

Submarine Gar (SS-206) sinks Japanese transport Seizan Maru, 01°00'N, 119°00'E.

Submarine Pompano (SS-181) departs Midway on her seventh war patrol. She is never heard from again.

Submarine Plunger (SS-179) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Seitai Maru off the southwest coast of Hokkaido, 42°15'N, 139°58'E.

Submarine Wahoo (SS-238) sinks Japanese merchant sampan No.1 Inari Maru, 45°50'N, 146°22'E.

Dutch submarine O 24 sinks Japanese gunboat Chosa Maru south of Penang, Malaya, 05°09'N, 100°10'E.

Atlantic
Naval Base, Rosneath, Scotland, is reestablished.

German submarine U-670 is accidentally rammed and sunk during night training exercises in Baltic Sea.