P-51s Do Damage

MON 2 APR 1945
Pacific
Preceded by USMC air strikes (First Marine Aircraft Wing), Army 163rd RCT (Reinforced) of the 41st Division, supported by three destroyers, land on Sanga Sanga, Sulu Archipelago, P.I., without encountering any resistance. Filipino guerrillas had cleared the island the month before.

Ten USAAF B-29s mine the waters off Kure and Hiroshima, Japan.

Off Okinawa, destroyer Franks (DD-554) is damaged in collision with battleship New Jersey (BB-62), 25°49'N, 130°01'E; destroyer Prichett (DD-561), by bomb, 27°17'N, 127°51'E; destroyer Borie (DD-704), by collision with carrier Essex (CV-9), 23°36'N, 131°40'E; and destroyer escort Foreman (DE-633), by bomb, 26°10'N, 127°11'E. Kamikazes damage attack transports Henrico (APA-45), 25°59'N, 127°17'E, and Goodhue (APA-107) and Telfair (APA-210), 25°56'N, 127°17'E; attack cargo ships Achernar (AKA-53), 26°07'N, 127°45'E, and Tyrrell (AKA-80), 26°21'N, 127°45'E; and high speed transport Dickerson (APD-21). Attack transport Chilton (APA-38) is damaged by near-miss of kamikaze, 25°59'N, 127°17'E; attack cargo ship Lacerta (AKA-29) is damaged by friendly fire, 26°21'N, 127°43'E.

TG 58.4 planes sink Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No.186, fast transport T.17, and landing ship T.145, and damage submarine chaser Ch 49 and landing ship T.146, near Amami-Oshima, 28°07'N, 129°09'E

Destroyer Shaw (DD-373) is damaged by grounding, Leyte, P.I., 09°36'N, 123°53'E.

Submarine Hardhead (SS-365) lays mines off Cape Camau, French Indochina.

Submarine Sea Devil (SS-400) attacks Japanese convoy TAMO-51 in the central Yellow Sea, sinking auxiliary vessel Edogawa Maru, army cargo ship Nisshin Maru, and merchant cargo ship Daijo Maru, 34°18'N, 124°04'E, and damaging merchant cargo ship Yamaji Maru, 34°02'N, 124°00'E.

British submarine HMS Stygian sinks Japanese coaster south of Kangean Island 07°02'S, 115°32'E.

USAAF P-51s damage Japanese river gunboat Katata at Shanghai.

USAAF aircraft sink small Japanese cargo vessel No.1 Taisei Maru off Cape St. Jacques, French Indochina, 10°10'N, 106°35'E.

USAAF B-24s bomb Japanese shipping at Hong Kong, sinking merchant cargo ship Yokai Maru.