Pacific War - November 1944
Draft of November 1944.
NOVEMBER '44
US troops advance in Leyte, the Philippines, and Borneo.
Siapan and Tinian airbases are being prepared.
Nov . American and British submarines sink several Japanese ships
every day. A Japanese submarine is sunk about every other day from all causes.
05 . Carrier strikes on Luzon, targeting Japanese aircraft, airfields, and shipping. IJN Nachi (CA) sunk
07.
President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented fourth term in the White House,
10. Ammunition ship Mount Hood (AE-11) is destroyed by accidental ammunition explosion in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands.
Mount Hood has an estimated 3,000 tons of explosives on board.
Every ship in the harbor, including two CVE, is damaged and many craft sunk.
Perhaps a quarter of an atom bomb blast.
12. Six US troop ships and freighters damaged by kamikazes off Leyte.
13. Three carrier task groups target Manila harbor sinking Japanese CL, four DD, ten freighters and oilers.
14. Three carrier task groups continue, sinking six freighters and oilers and many escort ships.
CVE Shinyo sunk by Spadefish (SS-411).
20. Oiler Mississinewa (AO-59) is sunk by kaiten off Ulithi, fired by Japanese submarine I-47 or I-36.
21. Two CL and nine DD from Alaska bombard Japanese naval air installations on Matsuwa Island, Kurils.
22. Carrier aircraft bomb Japanese air facilities on Yap, Carolines.
Japanese planes raid U.S. air facility at Morotai, East Indies,destroying 15 bombers and damaging 31.
24. First USAAF B-29 raid on Tokyo from Saipan; 110 planes .
25. Planes from two task groups attack convoy on west coast of Philippines sink CA Kumano, six landing ships, damage more,
Kamikazes damage carriers Essex (CV-9), Intrepid (CV-11) and Hancock (CV-19), and Cabot (CVL-28).
29. Colorado (BB-45) and light cruisers St. Louis (CL-49) and Montpelier (CL-57) damaged by kamikazes.
Archerfish (SS-311) sinks Japanese supercarrier Shinano 160 NM SE of Cape Muroto, Japan. Largest carrier in the world, till equalled by Forrestall1956 and exceeded by the nuclear Enterprise in 1961, still on active duty.
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Oct'44 , Dec'44
- 1945. Iwo Jima supports bombing of Japanese industry.
Okinawa taken as a base for the invasion of Japan in the Fall.
Kamikazes show increasing resistance as the home islands are approached.
The remaining Japanese fleet is destroyed in the shipyards.
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