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. Submarine Balao (SS-285) damages Japanese transport Kiyosumi Maru south of Truk, Caroline Islands. Tank landing ship LST-446 is damaged by accidental explosion, Solomon Islands. Destroyers Smith (DD-378) and Hutchins (DD-476) are damaged in collision off eastern New Guinea. Planes from carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) and small carrier Monterey (CVL-26), bomb shipping escorted by cruisers and destroyers, damaging light cruiser Noshiro. Sherman) attacks Japanese convoy off Kavieng, New Ireland. Naval Air Facility, Honolulu, Oahu, T.H., is established. Japanese army cargo ship Osaka Maru is damaged by mine, 16 miles off Ambon, N.E.I. Submarine Trigger (SS-237) damages Japanese transport Shozan Maru of the northern coast of Chosi Japan. Submarine Porpoise (SS-172), in attack on Japanese convoy, sinks merchant cargo ship Renzan Maru off northeastern coast of Honshu. Submarine Nautilus (SS-168) evacuates 29 civilians from Teop Island, Solomons. Rescuer (ARS-18) sinks after running aground off Scotch Cape, Aleutians. Japanese oiler Toen Maru is damaged by mine southwest of Hong Kong, B.C.C. or Japanese) off mouth of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. Japanese army cargo ship Teiun Maru (ex-German Bremerhaven) is sunk by mine (U.S. Aikoku Maru takes the 35-man crew and the 8 passengers prisoner. freighter Malama, en route from Honolulu to Manila, is bombed and sunk by floatplane from Japanese armed merchant cruiser Aikoku Maru aprroximately 900 miles northwest of Wake Island. Hart (Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet) arrives in Surabaya, Java, N.E.I., after his passage from Manila, P.I., in submarine Shark (SS-174).
There will be no separate peace agreements the signatories pledge to fight until the Axis is defeated. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill sign the Joint Declaration of the United Nations only the United States and Britain had discussed the document's creation, but ultimately representatives of 24 other nations, including the Soviet Union and China, will affix their signatures to it. Charles Edison of New Jersey becomes Secretary of the Navy he had been Acting Secretary since the death of Claude A.
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