SUN 27 AUG 1944
Pacific
Submarine Guitarro (SS-363) attacks Japanese convoy bound for Coron Bay, sinking merchant tanker No.25 Nanshin Maru, damaging No.3 Nanshin Maru, and forcing tanker No.25 Nanshin Maru aground, 12°26'N, 119°55'E.
Submarine Stingray (SS-186) lands men and supplies on northwest shore of Luzon.
PVs sink Japanese vessel Tensho Maru between Odomari and Onnekotan Island, Kurils.
High speed minesweeper Boggs (DMS-3) and submarine chaser PC-783 are damaged in collision, San Diego, California.
Atlantic
Tank landing ship LST-327 is damaged by mine, while en route from Cherbourg to Southampton, England.
Mediterranean
Destroyer Ericsson (DD-440) captures fishing vessel attempting to escape Toulon, France, and takes 50 German submariners as POWs. Motor torpedo boat PT-552 sinks four German explosive motorboats at entrance to Toulon, harbor, but control boat escapes.
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