In the action, light cruiser Helena (CL 50) becomes the first U.S. After the rest of TF 67 joins TG 67.2, Japanese planes attack the force, near-missing light cruiser Honolulu (CL 48) and damaging New Zealand light cruiser HMNZS Achilles, 18 miles south of Cape Hunter, Guadalcanal. Ainsworth) bombards airfield and installations at Munda, New Georgia, Solomons. Submarine Shad (SS-235) sinks German minesweeper M 4242 (ex-French trawler Odet II) in Bay of Biscay, 43★5'N, 002☄2'W.

SOCs (VCS Detachment RINGBOLT) bomb footbridge and probable Japanese bivouac near Kukumbona, Guadalcanal. Submarine Spearfish (SS-190) damages Japanese army cargo ship Akagisan Maru off New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, 03☃0'S, 151☃0'E. Submarine Argonaut (SS-166) sinks Japanese guardboat Ebon Maru, Bismarck Sea, 04☃0'S, 151☃0'E. Army I Corps (Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger) captures Buna, New Guinea, significantly reducing the threat to Port Moresby. Eleven motor torpedo boats attack the force off Cape Esperance without success. SBDs and F4Fs and USAAF B-17s, B-26s, and P-38s bomb ten Japanese supply-carrying destroyers (Rear Admiral Koyonagi Tomiji) west of Rendova, Solomons SBDs damage destroyer Sukukaze. freighter Arthur Middletonoff Oran, Algeria, 35 45'N, 00 45'W of the 81 souls on board (11 of whom are from the crew of tank landing craft LCT-21, which is also lost) 3 sailors of the 27-man Armed Guard detachment are the only survivors. German submarine U-73 torpedoes and sinks U.S. 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 35★5'N, 140★5'E. Submarine Porpoise (SS-172), in attack on Japanese convoy, sinks merchant cargo ship Renzan Maru off northeastern coast of Honshu, 39☁1'N, 142☀2'E. Submarine Nautilus (SS-168) evacuates 29 civilians from Teop Island, Solomons.

Rescuer (ARS-18) sinks after running aground off Scotch Cape, Aleutians. Navy in World War II-1943 Chapter V: 1943

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