13 Nov 1943

Caroline Islands
  • About 100 miles northeast of Truk, submarine USS Thresher scored three torpedo hits on the 5,000-ton Japanese freighter Muko Maru, which sank within minutes. Within a minute of firing her first torpedo salvo, Thresher fired three more torpedoes at an estimated 8,000-ton merchant ship in the same convoy with unobserved results. Thresher was then subjected to what was described as a "mild" depth charge attack. ww2dbase [Thresher | Hall Islands | DS]



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