US NAVY
PACIFIC—Submarine Pickerel (SS-177) damages Japanese
hospital ship Takasugo Maru in Manipa Strait, Malay Archipelago,03°00'S,
127°00'E.
Japanese
transport No.2 Nankai Maru is damaged by aircraft (nationality
unspecified), Shortland Island.
ATLANTIC—Destroyer Sturtevant (DD-240) is sunk by
mine off Marquesas Key, Florida.
CARIBBEAN—Unarmed U.S. freighter Alcoa Partner is
torpedoed by German submarine U-66 approximately 80 miles northeast of
Bonaire, N.W.I., at 13°32'N, 67°57'W; the ship's bauxite ore cargo causes the
ship to sink before the men on board have time to launch boats. One boat floats
free, however, and 25 men gather in it. Nine crewmen and a workaway, however,
drown in the wake of the ship's loss. The survivors reach Bonaire the next day.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
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US ARMY
FANNING ISLAND—U.S.
detachment arrives.
MINDANAO—Japanese detachment from Cebu sails for Mindanao.
Enemy forces already on Mindanao are exerting pressure against Digos defense force—101st
FA (PA), less Battalion, and 2d Battalion of 102d (PA).
BURMA—General Alexander decides to concentrate on defense
of India rather than that of Burma.
US MARINE CORPS
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