WED 7 MAR 1945
Mediterranean
Motor torpedo boats PT-305 and PT-307 are accidentally bombed (but not damaged) by friendly aircraft while patrolling southwest of Genoa, Italy.
TG 89.9, comprising aviation supply ship Tackle (IX-217) and fleet tug Moreno (ATF-87), departs Naples for Odessa, USSR, with supplies for American POWs liberated from German camps by Soviet troops.
Pacific
Navy task unit completes its work in the Baler Bay-Casiguran Sound area, having found both bodies of water to afford excellent anchorages; it encounters no mines in Casiguran Sound but sweeps 98 in Baler Bay. Not more than 100 Japanese troops are determined to be in the vicinity.
Japanese submarine chaser Ch 51 is damaged by aircraft off Hachijo Jima.
Japanese merchant cargo ship Enkei Maru is damaged, most likely by marine casualty, 30°42'N, 128°20'E.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
"Marine Casualty"
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