TUE 5 JUN 1945
Pacific
Typhoon off Okinawa damages battleships Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59), Alabama (BB-60), and Missouri (BB-63); carriers Hornet (CV-12) and Bennington (CV-20), small carriers Belleau Wood (CVL-24) and San Jacinto (CVL-30), escort carriers Windham Bay (CVE-92), Salamaua (CVE-96), Bougainville (CVE-100), Attu (CVE-102), heavy cruisers Baltimore (CA-68), Quincy (CA-71), and Pittsburgh (CA-72), light cruisers Detroit (CL-8), San Juan (CL-54), Duluth (CL-87), and Atlanta (CL-104), destroyers Schroeder (DD-501), John Rodgers (DD-574), McKee (DD-575), Dashiell (DD-659), Stockham (DD-683), De Haven (DD-727), Maddox (DD-731), Blue (DD-744), Brush (DD-745), Taussig (DD-746), and Samuel N. Moore (DD-747)*, destroyer escorts Donaldson (DE-44), Conklin (DE-439), and Hilbert (DE-742), oilers Lackawanna (AO-40) and Millicoma (AO-73), and ammunition ship Shasta (AE-6).
Off Okinawa, kamikazes damage battleship Mississippi (BB-41), 26°09'N, 127°35'E, and heavy cruiser Louisville (CA-28), 26°07'N, 127°52'E.
Destroyer Dyson (DD-572) is damaged when she is accidentally rammed by destroyer escort Abercrombie (DE-343) at Kerama Retto, Okinawa, 26°09'N, 127°49'E. Tank landing ship LST-540 is damaged by operational casualty off Okinawa.
Destroyer escort French (DE-367), on antisubmarine screening duties off Peleliu, bombards Malakal and Arakabesan Islands, Palaus.
Minesweeper Scuffle (AM-298) is damaged by grounding in Brunei Bay, 08°01'N, 117°13'E.
Gasoline tanker Sheepscot (AOG-24) is damaged by grounding off Iwo Jima, 24°46'N, 141°18'E.
Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 230 is sunk in collision with army transport Azusa Maru one mile south of Sop-To light, Korea, 34°00'N, 127°18'E. Azusa Maru is damaged in the collision.
Japanese guardboat No.13 Kintoku Maru is sunk by U.S. aircraft off Fujinamiohama, Japan.
Mines sink Japanese cargo ship No.5 Yawata Maru off Tsunemi, Moji; and merchant cargo ship Taisho Maru two kilometers off Mutsure Island 33°54'N, 130°54'E, and damage destroyer Yoizuki 5.8 kilometers northwest of Hime Jima light, escort destroyer Shii in Bungo Straits, army cargo ship Toyo Maru near Aohama, merchant cargo ship Annette Fritzen Go off Asa Jima, Fusan, 33°56'N, 131°03'E, and cargo vessel Toyo Maru off Shimonoseki, 33°57'N, 131°02'E.
Japanese fast transport T.9 is damaged by aircraft, north of Chichi Jima.
Japanese army cargo ship Taiko Maru is damaged by marine casualty off Kannonzaki.
Japanese merchant cargo ship No.2 Nansei Maru is damaged by marine casualty, near Moji.
*This reporter's immediate male ancestor was aboard the Moore at the time.
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