[Homer_J_Simpson]

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US sub sinks Japanese cruiser
Monday, August 10, 1942 www.onwar.com

In the Solomon Islands... An American submarine sinks the Japanese heavy cruiser Kako while it was returning to Rabual after the battle at Savo Island.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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August 10th, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: Luftwaffe bombers raid Colchester in Essex.

Trawler HMS Anticosti commissioned and loaned to RCN.

Rescue tug HMS Lariat commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-979 and U-980 laid down.
U-200 and U-712 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

EUROPE: The RAFs area bombing offensive is threatened as the Germans start jamming the Gee navigation system.

U.S.S.R.: Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: Shipping loss: MS “TSch-405 “Vzrivatel”” - by field artillery, close to Eupatoria (later raised) (Sergey Anisimov)(69)

Submarine P.555 commissioned.
Destroyer HS Kanaris commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The British trawler Islay sinks the Italian submarine Scire off Haifa.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Off New Ireland Island in the Bismarck Archipelago, the IJN’s Cruiser
Division 6, which had inflicted one of the worst defeats of the war on Allied surface ships in the Battle of Savo Island yesterday, are nearing Kavieng. At 0750 hours, the submarine USS S-44 (SS-155) sights the formation, four heavy cruisers, their track less than 900 yards (823 meters) away. At 0806 hours, the submarine fires four torpedoes at the rear ship, HIJMS Kako, only 700 yards (640 meters) away. By 0808, all four torpedoes have exploded; heavy cruiser KAKO is sinking, and S-44 has begun her escape. By 0812 hours, Japanese destroyers have started depth charging, without success; S-44 reaches Brisbane, Australia, on 23 August.

The first aircraft lands on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. The aircraft, a PBY-5A Catalina, is assigned to the Commander, South Pacific Force. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: In the Aleutian Islands, the USAAF’s 11th Air Force dispatches 5 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 3 B-24 Liberators to bomb Kiska Island targets; fighters and AA down 1 B-24. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Two men from U-135 are killed in an aircraft attack (Matrosenobergefreiter Emil Hafner, Matrosenobergefreiter Erhard Pömpner).

U-155 sank SS Strabo
U-438 sank SS Condylis Convoy SC-94
U-438 sank SS Oregon Convoy SC-94
U-510 damaged SS Alexia
U-600 sank SS Vivian P. Smith Convoy SC-94
U-660 sank SS Cape Race Convoy SC-94
U-660 damaged SS Condylis Convoy SC-94
U-660 sank SS Empire Reindeer Convoy SC-94
U-660 damaged SS Oregon Convoy SC-94
U-77 sank SS Kharouf
U-98 damaged USS Bold (AMc 67)

Destroyer ORP Blyskawica and HMS Broke receives orders to reinforce the escort of Convoy SC-94.
(Dave Shirlaw)