US NAVY
PACIFIC—Submarine Seadragon (SS-194) sinks Japanese
merchant cargo ship Nichizan Maru off Cam Ranh Bay, French Indochina,
13°47'N, 109°33'E.
Salvage
party from VP 41, transported to Akutan Island in district patrol vessel YP-151,
begin salvage of ZERO fighter discovered on 10 July. Their initial efforts
reveal more work will be required (see 15 July).
ATLANTIC—Twelve survivors from U.S. freighter Thomas
McKean, sunk by German submarine U-505 on 29 June 1942, reach
Antigua (see 14 July).
U.S.
freighter Andrew Jackson is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-84
approximately 20 miles off Cardenas, Cuba, 23°32'N, 81°02'W. Three of the
38 man crew perish; there are no casualties among the 11 man Armed Guard (see
13 July).
CARIBBEAN—U.S. freighter Tachira, en route to New
Orleans, Louisiana, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-129 at18°15'N,
81°54'W. Four of the 32 man crew perish, as does one of the six man Armed
Guard; U-129 briefly interrogates survivors and then provides medical
assistance and directs them toward the nearest land (see 16 July).
ARCTIC—Survivors from U.S. freighter Peter Kerr (sunk
on 5 July) are rescued by Russian motor torpedo boat and taken to Murmansk.
Russian whaler rescues survivors of U.S. freighter Washington (also sunk
on 5 July). Toward the end of their journey in lifeboats, Washington's survivors
(one of whom dies of exposure on 28 July at Archangel) had subsisted on rations
scrounged from U.S. freighter Winston-Salem that had been beached by her
crew and abandoned on the shores of Novaya Zemlya. British armed trawler HMS Ayrshire
rescues survivors from U.S. freighter Fairfield City, (dispersed
from convoy PQ 17 and sunk on 5 July) from Novaya Zemlya.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
EIGHTH AF—6 Bostons flown by US crews attack
Abbeville/Drucat airfield.
ELEVENTH AF—3 B‑24’s dispatched on weather, photo, and
bombing missions to Kiska abort due to weather.
US ARMY
AUSTRALIA—U.S.
41st Division, which has been training near Melbourne, starts to Rockhampton.
NEW GUINEA—Company B, Australian 39th Battalion, advancing overland
from Port Moresby, reaches Kokoda.
US MARINE CORPS
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