MONDAY, 28 JUNE 1943
ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force)
Six B-25's bomb Gertrude Cove, Little Kiska and the southern Main Camp area on Kiska through holes in the overcast. The
mission is partly ineffective because of faulty bomb-release mechanisms.
CENTRAL PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Seventh Air Force)
A bombing mission from Funafuti against Nauru is hampered by engine trouble and bad weather. One
B-24 had crashed at Palmyra, the previous day while en
route from the Hawaii to the staging base at Funafuti. Of
the 18 arriving at the forward base, two are released from duty because of
engine trouble, two crash on takeoff, and eight are grounded after a second
crash. Six heavy bombers are airborne for the mission, two abort, two fail to
find Nauru because of heavy front, and two drop bombs on Nauru with unobserved results.
BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force) 80th Fighter Group Headquarters Squadron, 88th Fighter Squadron and 90th Fighter Squadron arrive
at Karachi from the US with P-40s.
SOUTH PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Thirteenth Air Force)
The 394th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 5th Bombardment Group (Heavy) transfers with B-24's from the Fiji to Guadalcanal.
USMC: Marines of 4th Raider Battalion begin an overland journey towards Viru Harbor on New Georgia.
Seventeen SBDs from VMSB-132 led by Capt. McEniry plus twelve TBF Avengers escorted by twenty-four F4F Wildcats on a strike against Vila Airfield on Kolombangara in conjunction with a Navy strike on Munda Airfield. The weather was very bad the area was covered by clouds and returning via Munda Airfield circling until a break in the weather was found and dive bombed despite anti-aircraft fire with all planes returning safely.
USN: USS Peto (SS-265) sinks Japanese hydrographic-meteorological research ship Tenkai, 01°47'N, 151°46'E.
USS Tunny (SS-282) sinks Japanese gunboat Shotoku Maru off west coast of Rota, Marianas, 14°10'N, 145°03'E.
Second group of survivors of U.S. freighter Henry Knox, torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-37 on 19 June 1943, reaches the Maldives.
