Sunday, September 8, 2019

First V-2 Hits England

FRI 8 SEP 1944
Pacific
Submarine Bashaw (SS-241) sinks Japanese transport Yanagigawa Maru west of Mindanao, 08°10'N, 121°48'E.

Submarine Seal (SS-183) damages Japanese destroyer Namikaze off Hokkaido, 47°28'N, 148°20'E.

Submarine Spadefish (SS-411) sinks Japanese transport Shokei Maru and army cargo ship Shinten Maru off Sakishima Gunto, 24°39'N, 123°31'E, and merchant cargo ships Nichiman Maru and Nichian Maru, 24°45'N, 123°26'E.

USAAF B-24s bomb Japanese shipping off Chichi Jima, damaging cargo vessels Heiwa Maru and Toyo Maru.

Atlantic
First German V-2 rocket bomb lands in England.
Not much Wernher von Braun, but the music is awful & not a propos at all.This one's hosted by Walter Cronkite.
Mediterranean
German explosive boats attack destroyer Hilary P. Jones (DD-427) off Cap Martin, but inflict no damage; destroyer Madison (DD-425) is attacked by German explosive boats but sights them in time to avoid them. U.S. destroyers are attacked by German explosive boats five miles south of Cap Ampeglio; U.S. motor torpedo boats engage an additional four enemy craft.

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