T.111 Again

SUN 5 NOV 1944
Pacific
TF 38 (Vice Admiral John S. McCain) begins two days of carrier strikes on Luzon, targeting Japanese aircraft, airfields, and shipping. TG 38.3 attacks warships and auxiliaries in Manila Bay, where planes from carriers Lexington (CV-16) and Essex (CV-9), and small carrier Langley (CVL-27) sink heavy cruiser Nachi five nautical miles west of Corregidor. F6Fs from TG 38.3 sink Patrol Boat No.107 [ex-U.S. tug Genessee (AT-55)] off Lubang Island, 14°23'N, 120°25'E. Navy carrier-based planes (TG 38.3 hitting targets in Manila Bay, TG 38.1 targets off Santa Cruz) damage destroyer Akebono and escort destroyer Okinawa, landing ship T.111, motor sailship Tanoguchi Maru and cargo ships Toyo Maru and Showa Maru. During Japanese retaliatory air strikes, kamikaze damages carrier Lexington (CV-16), 16°20'N, 123°59'E.

Motor torpedo boat PT-320 is damaged by aerial bomb off Leyte, 11°11'N, 125°05'E.

USAAF B-29s bomb Singapore, damaging Japanese fleet tanker Notoro while she lies in drydock at Selatar, 01°18N, 103°52'E.

Japanese landing ship T.112 runs aground off southwest Mindoro, 12°40'N, 121°22'E.

Japanese merchant ship No.11 Bakshu Maru is sunk by mine off Penang.