H.M.S. Truculent Attacks!

TUE 28 MAR 1944
Pacific
Destroyers of DESDIV 94 bombard Japanese positions on Kapingamarangi Atoll, north of New Ireland, demolishing a radio and meteorological station.

Submarine Barb (SS-220) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Fukusei Maru off Rasa Island, 24°25'N, 131°11'E.

Submarine Silversides (SS-236) sinks Japanese cargo ship Kairyu Maru off Manokwari.

British submarine HMS Truculent, in attack on Japanese convoy, sinks army cargo ship Yasushima Maru in Strait of Malacca, 03°38'N, 100°50'E.