Tin Cans, Subs & Planes

WED 14 MAR 1945
Pacific
Destroyer Cotten (DD-669) and Dortch (DD-670) sink Japanese guardboats Futa Maru and No.17 Kaiko Maru off the Bonins, 30°58'N, 144°54'E.

PVs (VPB 151) begin operating from Iwo Jim's [sic] Motoyama Airfield No.1, thus bringing Japanese guardboats operating off the home islands within range of rocket-firing planes.

Submarine Bream (SS-243) sinks Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Keihin Maru 05°41'S, 114°03'E.

Submarine Rock (SS-274) lands supplies on Lombok Island N.E.I.

Submarine Trepang (SS-412) sinks Japanese guardboat Kaiko Maru off Inubosaki, 35°40'N, 141°00'E.

British submarine HMS Spirit sinks Japanese auxiliary sailing vessel Ryuho Maru off Massalambo Island 05°34'S, 114°26'E.

USAAF B-24 on anti-shipping sweep off south China coast sinks Japanese army ship No.3 Taisei Maru, 03°35'N, 112°10'E.

USAAF B-29s (274 strong) pound Osaka; Japanese merchant cargo ships Shiraume Maru and Shirogane Maru are sunk in the fire bomb raid that lays waste to the heart of the city.

USAAF B-24s damage Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 235 off Mako, Pescadores.

Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Yatsushiro Maru is damaged by aircraft, south of Wenchow, China.

Attacks against Japanese convoy KAI-311 continue, and USAAF B-24s and B-25s sink small cargo vessel No.15 Gokoku Maru off south China coast.

USAAF B-24 sinks small Japanese cargo vessel No.3 Taisei Maru off Hong Kong.

Navy aircraft sink small Japanese cargo vessel No.1 Taiki Maru and damage guardboat No.1 Shinya Maru, 27°10', 132°09'E.

Coastal yacht Amethyst (AMc-3) is damaged in collision with U.S. merchantman Platte Park 150 miles northwest of San Francisco.