SAT 6 NOV 1943
Pacific
Japanese torpedo planes attack infantry landing craft (gunboat) LCI(G)-70 and motor torpedo boat PT-167 as the U.S. ships retire from Cape Torokina to the Treasury Islands. Dud torpedoes damage both LCI(G)-70 and PT-167.
Japanese troops, transported by destroyers, land near Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomons.
Submarine Haddock (SS-231) attacks Japanese Truk-to-Singapore convoy consisting of fleet tankers Gen'yo Maru and Hoyo Maru and escorting destroyer Yakaze, 08°04'N, 150°04'E. Haddock torpedoes Hoyo Maru at 08°08'N, 149°45'E, and during evasive maneuvers Yakaze is damaged when she accidentally rams Gen'yo Maru. Despite the damage, Yakaze counterattacks Haddock. Submarine Scorpion (SS-278) torpedoes fleet tanker Hoyo Maru, 07°54'N, 150°06'E.
USAAF B-25s hit Japanese shipping west of Buka, sinking submarine chaser Ch 11, auxiliary submarine chaser No.9 Asahi Maru, and cargo vessel Asayama Maru. Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 30 and small cargo vessel No. 3 Nissen Maru are sunk in the same general area.
U.S. aircraft sink submarine chaser Ch 11 and water tanker Chozan Maru west of Buka, Solomons.
Mediterranean
German planes attack Naples-bound convoy KMF 25A; destroyer Beatty (DD-640) is sunk by aerial torpedo 32 miles northwest of Phillippeville, Tunisia, 37°10'N, 06°00'E. Troop transport Santa Elena is also torpedoed about 27 miles off Phillippeville, 37°13'N, 06°21'E, and abandoned. Transport Monterey takes on board the 1,870 Canadian troops (and nurses) traveling in Santa Elena; the crew and Armed Guard returns to the ship (see 7 November 1943).
Would you like to know more? Sure you would. John P. Perella was awarded the Silver Star. Third Marine Division Bougainville Combat Report. Koromakina, pg. 126. And "Hero of Koromakina Lagoon" is from issue #4 of The United States Marines, March 1944, saved from Saved From The Paper Drive.
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