TUE 3 AUG 1943
Atlantic
PBM (VP 205) sinks German submarine U-572, north of Dutch Guiana, 11°33'N, 54°05'W.
Aircraft (VC 1) from escort carrier Card (CVE-11) damage German submarine U-66 about 457 miles west-southwest of Flores Island, Azores.
PB4Ys (VB 107) damage German submarine U-604, South Atlantic.
Destroyer Moffett (DD-362) is accidentally damaged by PB4Y (VB 107), approximately 09°40'S, 30°07'W.
Pacific Theater
German auxiliary cruiser Michel (Schiffe 28) sights transport Hermitage (AP-54) off Pitcairn Island, but does not attack (see 7 August 1943).
Indian Ocean
Fifth group of survivors from U.S. freighter Robert Bacon, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-178 on 14 July 1943 off Mozambique Light, reaches safety after 20 days at sea (see 27 August 1943).
Mediterranean
Destroyer Buck (DD-420) sinks Italian submarine Argento off Tunisia, 36°52'N, 12°08'E.
U.S. tanker Yankee Arrow, in convoy KMS 20, is mined as she nears the Bizerte, Tunisia, harbor channel, 37°10'N, 11°06'E; two of the 25-man Armed Guard perish, as do five merchant sailors. The ship reaches port under her own power, but is adjudged unfit for further sea service.
And in Palermo 75 yrs. ago ...
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