420 Sunk

SAT 9 OCT 1943
Pacific
Submarine Guardfish (SS-217) unsuccessfully attacks Japanese stores ship Manko Maru, en route to Davao, 01°04'N, 146°08'E. Although Guardfish claims one hit out of four torpedoes fired, none actually hits Manko Maru.

Submarine Kingfish (SS-234) torpedoes Japanese oiler Hayamoto in Sibitu Channel, 05°09'N, 119°18'E.

Submarine Puffer (SS-268) torpedoes Japanese tanker Kumagawa Maru in Makassar Strait, 01°08'N, 119°31'E, but is damaged by depth charges (possibly dropped by auxiliary submarine chasers Cha 37 and Cha 41, summoned to the scene as escorts for Shoyo Maru which will tow Kumagawa Maru to Balikpapan) and is forced to terminate her patrol.

Submarine Rasher (SS-269) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Kogane Maru 28 miles from Ambon, 03°30'S, 127°45'E.

Submarine Wahoo (SS-238) sinks Japanese cargo ship Hankow Maru off Oga Peninsula, 37°18'N, 129°33'E.

Mediterranean
Destroyer Buck (DD-420) is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-616 in Gulf of Salerno, 39°57'N, 13°28'E.

More on the Buck's sinking, from survivor R.J. Kendall, Ensign, U.S.N., & others.