The Day Before FRI 13 AUG 1943

Not much American luck today.

THU 12 AUG 1943
Pacific
TU 16.6.1 (Rear Admiral Wilder D. Baker), consisting of two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and five destroyers, bombards Kiska.

Motor torpedo boat PT-168, operating from Rendova, is damaged by Japanese aircraft off Sandfly Harbor* and Ferguson Passage.

Mediterranean
Submarine chaser SC-526 is damaged by grounding off Sicily, 38°01'N, 13°27'E.

---

*Must be a real paradise if the honkies who named it thought sandflies were the harbor's salient feature.