Monday, December 31, 2018

New Yr.'s Eve Seamanship

FRI 31 DEC 1943
Pacific
Four PBY-5As from Attu, Aleutians, bomb Shimushu and Kashiwabara, Kuriles.

Submarine Greenling (SS-213) sinks Japanese transport Shoho Maru in Eastern Carolines, 05°40'N, 160°20'E, and evades counterattacks by submarine chaser Ch 30.

Submarine Herring (SS-233) attacks Japanese convoy, 31°46'N, 138°22'E (see 1 January 1944).

Atlantic
Destroyer Lea (DD-118) is damaged when she is accidentally rammed by U.S. freighter Elihu Yale, 33°29'30"N, 48°12'30"W.
Fuckin' Yalies.

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