MON 13 MAR 1944
Pacific
Submarine Sand Lance (SS-381) attacks Japanese convoy off Honshu, sinking light cruiser Tatsuta and cargo ship Kokuyo Maru 150 miles south-southwest of Yokosuka, 32°48'N, 139°08'E. Following those attacks, Japanese escort vessels drop 105 depth charges and keep Sand Lance at deep submergence for 18.5 hours.
Submarine Tautog (SS-199) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Ryua Maru and transport Shojin Maru about 20 miles west of Rashuwa Island, Kurils, 47°38'N, 152°38'E.
PBYs bomb Japanese shipping off Pelillo Island, 02°09'S, 140°19'E, sinking small cargo ship Hara Maru.
Indian Ocean
U.S. tanker H.D. Collier is torpedoed and shelled by Japanese submarine I-26 at 21°30'N, 66°11'E, and abandoned; of the 28-man Armed Guard, 12 perish in the action (see 16-17 March).
Atlantic
TBF (VC 95) from escort carrier Bogue (CVE-9), along with destroyer Hobson (DD-464), destroyer escort Haverfield (DE-393), Canadian armed merchant cruiser HMCS Prince Rupert and British Flying Fortress (No.220 Squadron) sink German submarine U-575, North Atlantic, 46°18'N, 27°34'W.
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