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.
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