8 Jun 1943
- USS Finback attacked a Japanese convoy east of Philippine Islands and claimed two transports sunk and another ship damaged, hitting them with 4 of 8 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Finback | CPC]
- Aircraft from USS Bogue attacked and damaged German submarine U-758 in the Central Atlantic. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bogue | DS]
- Brigadier General Paul Wursmith of US V Fighter Command landed a P-40 fighter at Marilinan, about 40 kilometers west of Lae, Australian Papua, to evaluate the general area for the possible construction of a new fighter airstrip. ww2dbase [Marilinan | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3) on board. Brig turned over to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Mutsu suffered an explosion due to unknown cause at 1213 hours about three kilometers north of Oshima Island in Japan. 1,121 men were killed; several hundred survivors were treated at military hospitals in Japan and then shipped off to various garrisons in order to maintain secrecy of this accidental explosion. ww2dbase [Mutsu | Hashirajima, Hiroshima | CPC]
- USS Ancon departed the United States for Oran, French Algeria. ww2dbase [Ancon | CPC]
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