SUN 5 DEC 1943 Pacific
Destroyers bombard Choiseul Bay area, Choiseul Island, Solomons.
Submarine Narwhal (SS-167) sinks Japanese cargo ship Himeno Maru (ex-U.S. Dos Hermanos) off Camiquin Island, 09°09'N, 124°29'E.
Indian Ocean
Japanese planes bomb Calcutta, India; U.S. freighter William Whipple is straddled and holed with fragments. There are no casualties among the 42-man merchant crew, but one man of the 28-man Armed Guard is injured.
Atlantic
Norwegian freighter Lillemor rescues 43 survivors from tanker Touchet, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-193 on 3 December 1943; shortly thereafter, destroyer escort Falgout (DE-324) picks up 11 more men from the lost ship (see 6 December 1943).
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