McCain) begins operations against Japanese airfields and shipping in the Formosa area. USAAF A-20s and P-38s (Fifth Air Force) attack Japanese shipping off San Fernando, Luzon, sinking Coast Defense Vessel No.138, transport Meiryu Maru, army cargo ship Shirokawa Maru, merchant cargo ships Taishin Maru, Hakka Maru, Hishikata Maru and Koryu Maru, 16☃7'N, 120☁9'E. Submarine Becuna (SS-319) sinks Japanese ship Daian Maru east of Madoera Island, 05★0'S, 113☁2'E.
Submarine Aspro (SS-309) damages Japanese landing ship Shinshu Maru south of Formosa Strait, 22☄2'N, 119☁4'E (see 3 January). Ramsay, RN, Allied Commander in Chief, Expeditionary Force, is killed in airplane accident near Paris, France. Japanese cargo vessel Kyokko Maru is sunk by mine (laid by British submarine HMS Tradewind on 30 October 1944), off Mergui, 12☂6'N, 98☃9'E. USAAF planes sink Japanese ships No.7 Taiko Maru and No.3 Taiwan Maru off Masinloc, P.I. Clayton is damaged by bomb dropped by Japanese plane, and catches fire off Blue Beach, Mindoro four of the 29-man Armed Guard sailors die of the resultant burns. Submarine Stingray (SS-186) lands supplies at Tawi Tawi, P.I.
Navy in World War II-1945 Chapter VII: 1945ĭestroyer escort Seid (DE-256), tank landing ship LST-225 and three infantry landing craft (LCI) (TU 94.5.10) land one company of Army troops (321st Infantry) on Fais Island to investigate whether or not it was being used as a midget submarine base and a communication center by the Japanese (see 3 and 4 January).
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