Another Medal Of Honor Earned

SAT 14 APR 1945
Pacific
Off Okinawa, kamikazes damage battleship New York (BB-34), 26°00'N, 128°00'E, and destroyers Sigsbee (DD-502), Dashiell (DD-659), and Hunt (DD-674), 27°15'N, 130°25'E; gunboat PGM-11 is damaged by grounding, 26°13'N, 127°27'E.

Tank landing ship LST-241 is damaged by collision, 14°38'N, 140°19'E.

Submarine Gabilan (SS-252) attacks Japanese Surabaya-to-Makassar convoy, sinking cargo vessel Kako Maru, 05°19'S, 117°06'E, and auxiliary submarine chaser No.1 Shonan Maru, 05°13'S, 118°12'E.

Submarine Tirante (SS-420) attacks Japanese convoy MOSI-02 in the approaches to the Yellow Sea, sinking transport Jusan Maru, escort vessel Nomi, and Coast Defense Vessel No.31 west of Quelpart Island 33°25'N, 126°15'E. For his skill and daring in carrying out this surface attack through mined and shoal-obstructed waters, Lieutenant Commander George L. Street III, Tirante's captain, will receive the Medal of Honor.

Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 11 is sunk by aircraft, 15°45'N, 108°28'E.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Kako Go is sunk by aircraft near Rima Island.

Mines damage Japanese minelayer Tokiwa 78 miles off Hesaki, and auxiliary minelayer Koei Maru off Hime Jima lighthouse.

USAAF B-24s (14th Air Force) bomb Japanese shipping at Shanghai, sinking cargo vessel Takko Maru, 31°14'N, 121°30'E.

Atlantic
U.S. tanker Delaware, directed to the scene by a Navy plane, rescues survivors of tanker Oklahoma (sunk on 28 March 1945 by German submarine U-532 in mid-Atlantic) at 11°45'N, 66°06'W.