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Thursday, August 9, 2018

U-664 Gets It This Time

MON 9 AUG 1943
Pacific
Submarine Sculpin (SS-191) sinks Japanese merchant passenger/cargo ship Sekko Maru, 24°55'N, 122°00'E.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Esutoru Maru is damaged by mine laid by submarine Scorpion (SS-278) on 19 April 1943, 36°05'N, 140°45'E.

Atlantic
Aircraft (VC 1) from escort carrier Card (CVE-11) sink German submarine U-664, 570 miles west of Fayal, Azores, 40°12'N, 37°29'W.

Tank landing ships LST-318 is damaged by dive bomber off Sicily, 38°04'N, 14°30'E.

LCT-311 founders in heavy weather off Bizerte, Tunisia.
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