Submarine H.M.S. Statesman

SUN 24 JUN 1945
Pacific
Destroyer escort Neuendorf (DE-200) is damaged in collision, P.I., 10°41'N, 122°35'E.

Motor minesweeper YMS-339 is damaged, accidentally, by U.S. aircraft off Balikpapan, Borneo, 01°19'S, 116°52'E.

Submarine Tirante (SS-420) sinks Japanese merchant sailing junk No.284 Antung Maru, 38°36'N, 124°40'E.

British submarine HMS Statesman damages Japanese submarine depot ship Komahashi ;off northern Sumatra.

British submarine HMS Torbay sinks unnamed merchant coaster [motor sailboat] in Malacca Strait.

Mines sink Japanese merchant cargo ships Katsura Maru, 34°19'N, 133°35'E; No.8 Kenkon Maru, 2.4 kilometers off Mutsure light, and Tatsukaba Maru, at mouth of Karatsu Bay; and damage merchant cargo ships Tsurukawa Maru, 33°55'N, 131°05'E, and Unzen Maru, 35°33'N, 133°17'E.

PB4Y-2s (VPB 118), flying from Okinawa in a repeat of mission carried out the previous day, continue aerial mining of waters of Korean archipelago, sowing mines in waters north of Iion-To and Gantai-To, and off Ninshi-To and Chi-To. The Privateers, upon completion of the mining operation, strafe targets of opportunity that include railroad facilities, airports and Japanese shipping, sinking merchant ship Pluto Go off Mokpo.

Japanese merchant cargo ship Wakamatsu Maru is damaged by aircraft, 33°47'N, 131°31'E.