WED 11 AUG 1943
Pacific
Submarine Finback (SS-230) damages Japanese auxiliary vessel Tatsumiya Maru, bound for Singapore, at 05°30'S, 120°48'E, and endures counterattack by escorting auxiliary submarine chaser Toseki Maru.
U.S. freighter Matthew Lyon is torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-11 as the ship proceeds toward Espiritu Santo, 13°42'S, 165°59'E, but reaches her destination under her own power. Of the 59 men on board, 41 merchant sailors and an 18-man Armed Guard, only one is injured in the attack.
USAAF B-24 attacks Japanese convoy, bombing minesweeper W.22, 01°20'S, 148°55'E.
Atlantic
Aircraft (VC 1) from escort carrier Card (CVE-11) sink German submarine U-525 about 376 miles west-southwest of Corvo Island, Azores, 41°29'N, 38°55'W.
German submarine U-604, previously damaged by PV-1s (VB 129) and PB4Ys (VP 107), and destroyer Moffett (DD-362) in South Atlantic, 05°00'S, 20°00'W, is scuttled. Her crew, embarked in U-185, will be further divided between U-185 and U-172 for the voyage home.
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