TUE 7 AUG 1945
Pacific
Submarine Pargo (SS-264), attacking Japanese convoy off northeastern Korea, sinks merchant cargo ship Rashin Maru, 41°15'N, 131°19'E.
Thirty USAAF B-29s mine Shimonoseki Straits and the waters off Maizuru and Sakai, Japan, and Najin, Korea.
USAAF B-29s (20th Air Force) on shakedown flight bomb Japanese installations at Truk, sinking auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 66, 07°23'N, 151°53'E.
Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Rumoe Maru is sunk by aircraft near My Tho, French Indochina.
USAAF B-25s (5th Air Force) attack Japanese convoy off Fusan, Korea, sinking Coast Defense Vessel No.39 at 35°06'N, 129°03'E, and merchant tankers No.7 Kinyu Maru and No.9 Nanki Maru near Koje-Do, 34°55'N, 128°44'E.
Japanese army cargo ship Kibitsu Maru is sunk by mine 250 meters east of Hiraiso, 34°37'N, 135°03'E.
Japanese merchant ship Keizan Maru is damaged by aircraft 13 miles south-southwest of Hime Jima light. Japanese merchant cargo ships Daigen Maru and Chiyotama Maru are damaged when they collide four miles south of Funagawa pier.
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