Own Shell Damage

TUES 12 JUN 1945
Pacific
Off Okinawa, light cruiser Vicksburg (CL-86) is damaged when own shell bursts as it leaves muzzle, 26°10'N, 127°20'E.

Submarine Sea Dog (SS-401) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ships Shinsen Maru and Kaiwa Maru, 40°11'N, 139°46'E.

Submarine Skate (SS-305) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ships Yozan Maru, Kenjo Maru, and Zuiko Maru, and damages Kankyo Maru in Togi harbor, northern Honshu, 37°08'N, 136°42'E.

Submarine Spadefish (SS-411) sinks Japanese guardboat Daido Maru west of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, 45°08'N, 141°10'E.

Submarine Tinosa (SS-283) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Keito Maru, 37°30'N, 129°20'E.

Japanese submarine chaser Ch 57 and passenger ferry No.2 Kuroshio (ex-landing ship T.149) are sunk by British destroyers HMS Tartar, HMS Eskimo, and HMS Nubian* (10th Destroyer Flotilla), 20 miles north of Sabang, Sumatra, 06°20'N, 94°45'E, as the enemy is engaged in withdrawing his troops from the Andamans.

Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Myoken Maru is sunk by aircraft, Atsuta dockyard.

Okinawa-based PB4Y-2s (VPB 118), using radar, mine the waters off Chin-To, Korean Archipelago. The same waters are mined again the following day.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s sink Japanese army cargo ship Aizan Maru in Hakata Bay, 33°38'N, 130°22'E, merchant cargo ships Sagami Maru, 25 miles off Kaburazaki, and Fumitsuki Maru off Shirasu, 33°57'N, 130°44'E, and liaison ship Shimonoseki Maru at 36°30'N, 130°19'E, and damage army tanker Yamadono Maru, 2.5 kilometers off Manabe Island.

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*Of the famed "Ethnic" or "Wog" class of Limey destroyers.