Saturday, June 6, 2020

Collision & Kamikazes

WED 6 JUN 1945
Pacific
Off Okinawa, minesweepers Requisite (AM-109) and Spear (AM-322) are damaged in collision, 26°00'N, 127°00'E; light minelayers Harry F. Bauer (DM-26) and J. William Ditter (DM-31) are damaged by kamikazes, 26°14'N,128°01'E, and landing craft flotilla flagship LC(FF)-995 is damaged by operational casualty.

Mines sink Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 195, Nanao Bay, Honshu, Japan, 37°10'N, 137°05'E; guardboat No.5 Yawata Maru off Tsurumi; merchant cargo ship Gassan Maru off Moji, 34°00'N, 130°50'E, destroyer Kaki off Kominase, 33°46'N, 130°24'E, escort destroyer Habuto 1.3 kilometers north of Kannonzaki light, and cargo ship No. 18 Tamon Maru off Hesaki light.

Japanese army cargo ship No.20 Hokko Maru is damaged by marine casualty off east coast of Aomori prefecture.

Auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 251 (ex-submarine chaser Ch 51) is damaged by aircraft, three miles off Akashima.

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