USAAF A-20s and P-38s (Fifth
Air Force) attack Japanese shipping off San Fernando, Luzon, sinking
Coast
Defense Vessel No.138, transport Meiryu
Maru, army cargo ship Shirokawa Maru, merchant cargo ships
Taishin Maru, Hakka
Maru, Hishikata
Maru and Koryu Maru, 16°37'N, 120°19'E.
Vice Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay,
RN, Allied Commander in Chief, Expeditionary Force, is killed
in airplane accident near Paris, France.
Submarine Aspro (SS-309) damages Japanese landing ship Shinshu
Maru south of Formosa Strait, 22°42'N, 119°14'E (see 3 January).
Submarine Becuna (SS-319) sinks
Japanese ship Daian Maru east of Madoera Island, 05°50'S, 113°12'E.
USAAF A-20s and P-38s (Fifth Air
Force) attack Japanese shipping off San Fernando, Luzon, sinking
Coast Defense Vessel No.138, transport Meiryu Maru, army cargo
ship Shirokawa Maru, merchant cargo ships Taishin Maru, Hakka
Maru, Hishikata Maru and Koryu Maru, 16°37'N, 120°19'E.
Leading groups of U.S. fleet units
bound for Lingayen Gulf make daylight passage of Surigao Strait,
where they come under attack from Japanese planes. Oiler Cowanesque
(AO-79) is damaged by kamikaze, 08°56'N, 122°49'E, motor minesweeper
YMS-53 by near-miss of bomb.
The Naval Chronicle.
