Death From Above

THU 9 NOV 1944
Pacific
Marine fighter aircraft based on Peleliu commence air strikes on Japanese on Ngeregong Island. These strikes, together with bombardment by vessels of LCI(L)-Flotilla 13, will continue on 10 November, rendering it untenable for the invaders (see 15 November 1944).

PROJECT MIKE continues as USAAF B-24s (42d Bomb Squadron) lay 10 mines in Futami Ko, Chichi Jima.

Submarine Barbero (SS-317) attacks Japanese convoy and sinks merchant tanker Shimotsu Maru about 250 miles west of Manila, 14°32'N, 116°53'E.

Submarine Haddo (SS-255) sinks Japanese fleet tanker No.2 Hishi Maru in Mindoro Straits, 12°24'N, 120°45'E.

Submarine Queenfish (SS-393) attacks Japanese convoy TAMA-28 in East China Sea, and sinks gunboat Chojusan Maru about 50 miles west of Kyushu, 31°15'N, 129°10'E.

Japanese cruiser Kumano, damaged by U.S. submarines on 6 November 1944, breaks her anchor and drifts aground off Santa Cruz, Luzon.

Japanese TA Operation (fourth phase) convoy reaches Ormoc Bay and unloads men and materiel brought from Manila (see 10 November 1944).

USAAF B-25s and P-38s (13th Air Force) and motor torpedo boats PT-492, PT-497, PT-524, and PT-525 begin attacks against Japanese convoy in Ormoc Bay, the former damaging escort vessels Okinawa and Shimushu.

Indian Ocean
U.S. tanker Tumacacori rescues 17 survivors of U.S. tanker Fort Lee, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-181 on 2 November 1944 (see 16 November 1944).