SEXTANT Conference

MON 22 NOV 1943
President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, for talks (SEXTANT Conference).

Pacific
Destroyer Frazier (DD-607) is damaged when she intentionally rams Japanese submarine I-35; the enemy submersible is sunk by Frazier and destroyer Meade (DD-602) off Tarawa, 01°22'N, 172°47'E.

Submarine Drum (SS-228) is damaged by depth charges north of New Guinea, 02°53'N, 141°36'E, and is forced to terminate her patrol.

Submarine Seahorse (SS-304) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Taish Maru, 33°41'N, 128°35'E.

Submarine Tinosa (SS-283) sinks Japanese army cargo ships Kiso Maru and Yamato Maru off Palau, 07°09'N, 134°32'E; although damaged by depth charges, 07°09'N, 134°34'E, she remains on patrol.

USAAF B-24 sinks Japanese cargo ship Kinyamasan Maru, 01°00'N, 149°20'E, that had escaped damage the previous day; destroyer Asanagi continues on to Truk with survivors of Nichii Maru and Kinyamasan Maru.

Japanese army repair ship Kashima Maru is sunk by mine, laid by USAAF B-24 on 16 November 1943 off Macao.

U.S. tanker Elizabeth Kellogg, bound for Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, is torpedoed by German submarine U-516 at 11°10'N, 80°43'W, and abandoned (see 24 November 1943). [Notice that all the action's been in the Pacific recently? Even the Nazis are there.]