FRI 4 FEB 1944Bonus Kwajalein footage.
Pacific
TG 94.6 cruisers and destroyers (Rear Admiral Wilder D. Baker) bombard Japanese installations at Paramushiro, Kuril Islands, damaging cargo ship Kokai Maru.
Destroyers bombard Sarine Plantation, northwest coast of Bougainville, Solomon Islands; destroyer Claxton (DD- 571) is damaged by return fire from Japanese shore battery, 05°49'S, 154°39'E.
Destroyer Charrette (DD-581) and destroyer escort Fair (DE-35) sink Japanese submarine I-175 100 miles north of Jaluit, Marshalls, 06°48'N, 168°08'E.
PV-1s sink Japanese water tanker Goryu Maru off Emidj Island, Jaluit, 06°00'N, 169°44'E.
USMC PB4Ys (VMD 154) reconnoiter Truk in the first general reconnaissance of that important Japanese fleet base by U.S. planes.
Monday, February 4, 2019
"... damaged by return fire ..."
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