Pennsylvania (BB-38) Damaged

SUN 12 AUG 1945
Pacific
TF 92, comprising two light cruisers and 12 destroyers (Rear Admiral John H. Brown, Jr.) bombards Japanese installations on Matsuwa Island and at Kurabu Cape and Suribachi Bay, Paramushiro Island Kurils. A pre-bombardment sweep of the Sea of Okhotsk results in the destruction of ten trawlers.

Japanese submarine I 58 conducts unsuccessful kaiten attack on dock landing ship Oak Hill (LSD-7) while she is en route from Okinawa to Leyte Gulf accompanied by destroyer escort Thomas F. Nickel (DE-587).

Battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) is damaged by aerial torpedo, Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 26°14'N, 127°50'E.

Aircraft sink Japanese auxiliary patrol vessel Pa 166 five miles southeast of Urasaki, Japan, and merchant cargo ship Hozugawa Maru off the east coast of Korea, 35°00'N, 126°00'E, and damage Kitanami Maru off Mishima light.

Mines sink Japanese merchant cargo ship No.1 Shinyo Maru north of Kyushu, and damage merchant cargo ship Yurakawa Maru eight kilometers off Wakamatsu light, and army cargo ship No.16 Tamon Maru in Koguchi Channel, Nanao, 37°07'N, 137°02'E.