TUE 1 AUG 1944 AUGUST
Pacific
Seventh Amphibious Force (Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barbey) is formed. Group One is to be commanded by Rear Admiral Arthur D. Struble; Group Two by Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil. Cecil, however, is killed in crash of Naval Air Transport Service PB2Y, Funafuti.
Organized Japanese resistance ends on Tinian.
Naval Air Base, Tinian, is established.
Destroyer escort England (DE-635) is damaged when she runs aground in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands.
Submarine Puffer (SS-268) damages Japanese oiler Sunosaki northeast of Borneo, 05°08'N, 119°32.5'E.
Navy PBY attacks Japanese convoy, sinking ammunition ship Seia Maru in Taliaboe Bay, Soela Island, N.E.I., 01°46'N, 125°32'E.
U.S. freighter Extavia is damaged by explosion while en route from New Georgia to the Treasury Islands, but reaches her destination unaided; there are no casualties among the 73-man merchant complement or 81-man Armed Guard, or the 845 embarked troops.
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