MON 2 JUL 1945
Pacific
Japanese planes attack fleet units patrolling off Okinawa; high speed transport Scribner (APD-122) is narrowly missed by aerial torpedo.
Submarine Apogon (SS-308) damages Japanese auxiliary submarine chasers Cha 58 and Cha 65, 49°28'N, 154°19'E.
Submarine Barb (SS-220) employs rockets in bombardment of Japanese shore installations at Kaihyo Island off the east coast of Karafuto; this is the first successful use of these weapons against shore positions by a U.S. submarine.*
Submarines Haddo (SS-255) and Paddle (SS-263) attack Japanese shipping, sinking one unnamed cargo vessel and leaving another drifting, 37°55'N, 124°58'E.
Mines sink Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 188 in Sea of Japan, 1.5 kilometers off Mutsure light, 33°59'N, 130°52'E, and damage army motor sailer Nanko Maru, by mine, .5 kilometers off Kammon light.
Japanese merchant tanker No.5 Nanki Maru is sunk by marine casualty, 34°18'N, 141°25'E. Marine casualties (most likely groundings or storms) account for damage to cargo ship Awa Maru between Hakodate and Yokohama, and cargo vessel Annette Fritzen at entrance to Pusan harbor, Korea.
USAAF B-29s (20th Air Force) bomb Japanese shipping and installations at Kure, sinking cargo vessel Himetaka Maru, 34°11'N, 132°31'E.
USN land-based planes sink Japanese sailing vessel Nishima Maru off Gunzan, west coast of Korea, 35°50'N, 126°30'E, and cargo ship No.12 Shima Maru at 35°43'N, 126°32'E.
*Everything one might wish to know about Barb. Scroll to p. 59.
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