SAT 14 AUG 1943
Pacific
Submarine chaser SC-67 makes rendezvous with damaged U.S. freighter M.H. de Young torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 the previous day, and takes off wounded men to transport to Tongatabu. M.H. de Young is subsequently towed to that port by Canadian steamship Quebec two days later.
Open lighter YC-970 sinks in Puget Sound, Washington.
Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 109 is damaged by aircraft off Balikpapan, Borneo.
USAAF B-25 aircraft sink three Japanese fishing craft, Iboki, 05°33'S, 149°08'E.
Mediterranean
U.S. freighter Francis W. Pettygrove, torpedoed while in convoy KMS 21 the day before by German plane, is taken in tow by British minesweeper HMS Hythe.
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Sinking In Puget Sound
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