Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Indian P.O.W. Freed By Commandos

SAT 11 AUG 1945
Pacific
TG 95.4 (Captain Henry J. Armstrong, Jr.) comprising four light minelayers (DM), 40 minesweepers (AM) and 10 motor minesweepers (YMS), and various supporting vessels, departs Buckner Bay, Okinawa, to proceed into the East China Sea to conduct minesweeping operations.

TF 38 planes damage Japanese destroyer Kaba and submarines I 36, I 159, and I 402 at Kure, Japan.

Destroyer McDermut (DD-677) is damaged by small-caliber naval gunfire in Kurils, 49°30'N, 155°01'E.

Submarine Chub (SS-329) sinks Japanese army auxiliary sailing vessel No.32 Sakura Maru, 06°40'S, 115°44'E.

Submarine Hawkbill (SS-366) puts landing party and Australian commandos ashore at Terampah Harbor, Matak Island Anambas Islands, that destroys a gasoline dump, captures intelligence documents, and rescues an Indian POW.

Submarine Jallao (SS-368) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Teihoku Maru, 38°03'N, 133°12'E.

Mines laid by USAAF B-29s (20th Air Force) sink Japanese merchant cargo ship No.2 Nisshin Maru eight kilometers off Wakamatsu light, 33°45'N, 131°30'E, and damage landing ship T.153 two miles east-northeast of Kanawaiwa, Japan.

Japanese merchant vessel Wajun Go is damaged by marine casualty near Funagawa.

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