Japanese planes bomb advanced base on Apamama Atoll, demolishing one PB4Y exploding ammunition in the burning aircraft damages two additional PB4Ys. Submarine Finback (SS-230) sinks Japanese merchant tanker Isshin Maru in East China Sea about 30 miles northwest of Takara Jima, Nansei Shoto, 29☃0'N, 128★0'E.Īerial minelaying operations in the Marshalls continue: flying from Tarawa, five PV-1s (VB 137) and one PBY-5 (VP 72) mine Jabor Anchorage. Insertion of American troops at Saidor leap-frogs the Japanese garrison at Sio, 75 miles to the east. Sixth Army troops (126th Regimental Combat Team, 32d Division, Reinforced) at Saidor, New Guinea, in Operation MICHAELMAS. Destroyer Somers (DD-381) intercepts Weserland and opens fire (see 3 January). PB4Y (VB 107) sights and tracks German blockade runner Weserland, en route from Japan to Germany, 595 miles south-southwest of Ascension Island. PBYs sink Japanese cargo ship Kanaiyama Maru near Lorengau, Admiralty islands, 02☀3'S, 147☂7'E.Īerial minelaying operations in the Marshalls continue: four PB4Y-1s (VB 108), flying from Apamama, mine Enijun Channel, Maleolap flying from Tarawa, three PV-1s (VB 137) mine the waters off Jaluit two PBY-5s (VP 72) mine Jabor Anchorage, Jaluit.
Submarine Ray (SS-271) sinks Japanese gunboat Okuyo Maru at mouth of Ambon Bay, N.E.I., 03★1'S, 128☀4'E. Submarine Puffer (SS-268), in attack on Japanese convoy at the western entrance of the Mindanao Sea, sinks army cargo ship Ryuyo Maru about 40 miles south of Negros Island, 08☃6'N, 122★2'E. Counterattack by escorting destroyer Ikazuchi is unsuccessful. Submarine Herring (SS-233), pursuing Japanese convoy spotted the previous day, sinks aircraft transport Nagoya Maru 220 miles south-southwest of Tokyo Bay, 32☁0'N, 138☃7'E. Submarine Balao (SS-285) damages Japanese transport Kiyosumi Maru south of Truk, Caroline Islands, 04☃2'N, 147☂3'E. Tank landing ship LST-446 is damaged by accidental explosion, Solomon Islands, 06☁5'S, 155☀2'E. Planes from carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) and small carrier Monterey (CVL-26), bomb shipping escorted by cruisers and destroyers, damaging light cruiser Noshiro.ĭestroyers Smith (DD-378) and Hutchins (DD-476) are damaged in collision off eastern New Guinea, 05☀0'S, 146☀0'E.
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Naval Air Facility, Honolulu, Oahu, T.H., is established. Navy in World War II-1944 Chapter VI: 1944
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