FRI 7 JAN 1944
Pacific
Small carrier Belleau Wood (CVL-24) and destroyer Dunlap (DD-384) are damaged in collision during exercises off Oahu, T.H.
Submarine Kingfish (SS-234) attacks Japanese convoy southwest of Palawan, sinking merchant tanker No.3 Fushimi Maru, 09°27'N, 117°36'E.
Eight PB4Y-1s (VB 108 and VB 109), flying from Apemama, encounter bad weather that forces cancellation of their minelaying mission to the Marshalls.
USAAF B-25s sink Vichy French merchant ship Kai Ping, Ben Thuy, French Indochina.
Japanese cargo vessel Katsuragisan Maru is sunk by Japanese mine in northwest channel of Truk harbor, 07°30'N, 151°50'E.
Atlantic
Fleet tug Carib (ATF-82) stops and boards Spanish merchant ship Monte Amiboto and removes a stowaway, an alleged German internee in Argentina from the armored ship Admiral Graf Spee. [See 17 DEC 1939.]
Destroyer Davis (DD-395) rescues 21 survivors of sunken German blockade runner Burgenland, 08°06'S, 26°45'W.
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