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• Light carrier Ryuho departed Saeki, Japan for Singapore. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese transport in the North Pacific; all four torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Skipjack | CPC]

• Neel Kearby led a fighter sweep over Wewak, Australian New Guinea; his flight shot down several Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Lieutenant Colonel Tamiji Teranishi, commanding officer of 14th Flying Brigade. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
• US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron successfully took photos of Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]

• 13 Beaufighter aircraft of 30 Squadron RAAF from Goodenough Island and 2 squadrons of US 38th Bomb Group arrived at Dobodura Airfield in Australian Squadron in preparation of a planned strike on Rabaul, New Britain on the next day. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Dobodura Airfield | CPC]

• Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Naka | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Jakarta, Java. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) arrived at Oahu, Hawaii and for the next month conducted air training operations out of Pearl Harbor. ww2dbase [J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | DS]

• Dudley Morton was killed in the sinking of USS Wahoo by Japanese anti-submarine aircraft in La Pérouse Strait between Hokkaido and Karafuto (Sakhalin), Japan. ww2dbase [Dudley Morton | CPC]
• The US submarine Wahoo was bombed and sunk by Japanese anti-submarine aircraft in La Pérouse Strait between Hokkaido and Karafuto (Sakhalin), Japan. All aboard were killed. ww2dbase [Wahoo | AC]
• Vern Skjonsby was killed aboard USS Wahoo when the submarine was sunk by Japanese aircraft in the La Pérouse Strait north of Hokkaido, Japan. ww2dbase [Verne Skjonsby | CPC]

11 Oct 1943 Interactive Map