Sunday, October 14, 2018

Establishment & Abandonment

THU 14 OCT 1943
Pacific
Japanese planes attack six Lambu Lambu-based U.S. motor torpedo boats off Choiseul Bay, damaging PT-183.

Submarine Grayback (SS-208) sinks Japanese fleet tanker Kozui Maru, 27°35'N, 127°30'E, and eludes hunter-killer operations carried out by aviation supply ship Takasaki.

Atlantic
Naval Air Facility, Igarape Assu, Brazil, is established.

Coast Guard Cutter Dow (WYP-353) runs aground off Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and is abandoned.

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