Thursday, August 2, 2018

PT-109

MON 2 AUG 1943
Pacific
TG 16.6 (Rear Admiral Wilder D. Baker) and TG 16.17 (Rear Admiral Howard F. Kingman), consisting of two battleships, two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and nine destroyers, bombard Kiska, Aleutians. Kiska is bombarded ten times between 2 and 15 August 1943.
Motor torpedo boats continue to engage Japanese destroyers off Kolombongara (see 1 August 1943);
motor torpedo boat PT-109 is rammed and sunk by Japanese destroyer Amagiri, Blackett Strait, Solomons, 08°03'S, 156°58'E. Amagiri is damaged in the collision.
USAAF B-25s and P-38s sink Japanese motor torpedo boats Gyoraitei No.112 and Gyoraitei No.113 at Lae, New Guinea, 07°00'N, 147°00'E.

RAAF Catalinas damage Japanese destroyer Akikaze south of Rabaul, 06°50'N, 151°10'E.

Atlantic
USAAF aircraft sink German submarine U-706 eastern Atlantic, 46°15'N, 10°25'W.

From June 1962, the 27-pg. Dell version.

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