Air War In The Pacific

SUN 24 OCT 1943
Pacific
Japanese army cargo ship Kazan Maru sinks as the result of damage inflicted by Silversides (SS-236) the previous day; attempt by Japanese submarine chaser Ch 24 to scuttle the immobilized Johore Maru fails. Silversides herself later finishes off Johore Maru.

USMC land-based aircraft sink Japanese destroyer Mochizuki 90 miles south-southwest of Rabaul, 05°42'S, 151°40'E.

PBYs sink Japanese destroyer Mochizuki and damages destroyer Uzuki south of Jacquinot Bay, 05°35'N, 151°35'E.

USAAF B-24 sinks Japanese cargo vessel Nagaragawa Maru off Manokwari.

Japanese destroyer Satsuki is damaged by grounding off Utano Island, 05°31'S, 149°14'E (see 26 and 30 October 1943).