WED 17 NOV 1943
Pacific
Destroyers bombard Japanese airfield at Buka, Bougainville, Solomons.
Japanese planes attack convoy carrying Marine reinforcements to Bougainville, Solomons. High speed transport McKean (APD-5) is sunk by aerial torpedo 19 miles southwest of Cape Torokina, 06°31'S, 154°52'E.
Submarine Capelin (SS-289) departs Darwin, Australia for Molucca and Celebes Seas. She is never heard from again (see 23 November 1943).
Submarine Drum (SS-228) sinks Japanese submarine depot ship Hie Maru (which had eluded Drum on 11 November) north-northwest of New Ireland, 01°45'N, 148°20'E.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Last Contact W/ Capelin
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