SUN 17 JUN 1945
Pacific
Twenty-seven USAAF B-29s mine Shimonoseki Straits and the waters off Kobe, Japan.
Gasoline tanker Chestatee (AOG-49) is damaged in collision with U.S. tanker Sinclair Superflame off Luzon, 07°04'N, 122°06'E.
Submarine Spadefish (SS-411) attacks Japanese convoy, sinking Japanese auxiliary minelayer Eijo Maru off Matsuta Misaki, Hokkaido, 42°38'N, 139°49'E.
Submarine chaser PC-794 is damaged when she strikes an uncharted rock off Theodore Point, Otter Island Alaska, 52°45'10"N, 172°53'20"E.
Japanese cargo ship Kongo Maru is sunk by aircraft, north of Shumushu Island.
Japanese fast transport T.16 is damaged by aircraft, 15 miles off Oshima.
Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No.46 is damaged by marine casualty north of Tsingtao, China.
Japanese naval vessel Bingo Maru is damaged by marine casualty, two kilometers off Paekyongdo.
Japanese merchant cargo ship Jintsugawa Maru is sunk by marine casualty off Najin, Korea.
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