SUN 1 AUG 1943 Pacific
Rendova-based motor torpedo boats patrolling off Vanga Vanga and Gatere, Solomons, encounter Japanese destroyers in Blackett Strait off Kolombongara (see 2 August 1943).
Motor torpedo boat PT-117, damaged by dive bomber, Rendova Harbor, Lumbari Island, Solomons, 08°24'S, 157°19'E, is beached and abandoned; PT-164 is sunk by horizontal bomber, Rendova Harbor, 08°25'S, 157°20'E.
Submarine Finback (SS-230) damages Japanese transport Atlas Maru, 04°10'S, 112°10'E.
Submarine Mingo (SS-261) bombards Sorol Island, Carolines.
USAAF planes initiate daily bombings of Kiska, Aleutians. [Your grandparents' tax dollars at work; when did they finally figure out the Japanese had evacuated Kiska? — M.B.]
Submarine Steelhead (SS-280) attacks same Japanese convoy harassed by Pogy (SS-266) the previous day and damages auxiliary vessel Seiko Maru as she tries to reach Truk, 11°20'N, 153°30'E.
Atlantic
Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, is established.
Gunboat Brisk (PG-89) attacks German submarine U-732, driving her away from Guantanamo-bound convoy NG 376.
Mediterranean
Minesweeper Skill (AM-115) is damaged by horizontal bomber off Sicily.
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