Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Badger Damaged

SUN 8 APR 1945
Pacific
Off Okinawa, destroyer Charles J. Badger (DD-657) is damaged by assault demolition boat, 26°18'N, 127°39'E; destroyer Gregory (DD-802) is damaged by kamikaze, 27°07'N, 128°39'E; motor minesweeper YMS-92 is damaged by mine, 26°12'N, 127°53'E; tank landing ship LST-939 is damaged in collision with tank landing ship LST-268, 26°22'N, 127°44'E; tank landing ship LST-940 is damaged by grounding, 26°20'N, 127°45'E.

British submarine HMS Stygian unsuccessfully attacks Japanese cargo vessel Enoshima Maru, 06°30'S, 113°08'E.

USAAF B-24 (13th Air Force) attacks Japanese auxiliary submarine chasers southeast of the Celebes, sinking Cha 101 and damaging Cha 72, 04°43'S, 122°17'E.

Mines (laid by USAAF planes) sink Japanese cargo ship No.12 Tamon Maru in Yangtze, near Shanghai, 31°16'N, 121°45'E, and damages escort destroyer Habushi ten miles below Woosung.

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