Submarine Flasher (SS-249) attacks
Japanese convoy about 275 miles southwest of Manila, sinking destroyer
Kishinami, 12°54'N, 116°27'E, and damages merchant tanker Hakko
Maru. Flasher eludes efforts of the escorting Yurijima and Coast
Defense Vessel No.17; Hakko Maru is later scuttled, 13°12'N, 116°35'E,
most likely by Yurijima and/or Coast Defense Vessel No.17.