July 28, 1943
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WEDNESDAY, 28 JULY 1943

CENTRAL PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Seventh Air Force) The 333d Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, transfers from Hilo Field to Bellows Field with P-39's.

CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force) Six B-25's, with escort of nine P-40's, bomb Taikoo Docks at Hong Kong.

SOUTH PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Thirteenth Air Force) B-25's and US Navy aircraft hit gun positions and other targets at Webster Cove on New Georgia.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Fifth Air Force) B-25s attack barges and fuel dump between Cape Raoult and Rein Bay and hit Cape Gloucester Airfield and two destroyers sinking Ariake and Mikazuki. Lost is B-25C "Johnny Pom Pom / Eager Eagle" 41-12906. Sunk is Mikazuki. Single B-24's bomb Unea and unsuccessfully attack shipping in Saint George Channel. B-24's bomb Manokwari and Larat and Boela. B-25's hit Lautem Town and Cape Chater Airfield.

USN: Japanese complete the undetected evacuation of Kiska under the command of Vice Admiral Kawase Shiro under the cover of fog. Among the materiel wrecked by the evacuating enemy are three Type A midget submarines abandoned at Kiska Harbor Submarine Base.

USS Farragut (DD-348) on Kiska blockade patrol sinks an empty Japanese landing craft (perhaps cast adrift by the evacuating enemy garrison) four miles east of Sobaka Rock, off the south coast of Kiska.

Japanese submarine RO 103 is last reported on this date; subsequent attempts to contact her are unsuccessful and she never returns to her base at Rabaul. Her fate is uncertain; she may have been mined.

USAAF B-25s sink Japanese destroyers Ariake and Mikazuki off Cape Gloucester.

USAAF B-24s sink Japanese army cargo vessel Tamishima Maru off Tavoy Island, 13°53'N, 097°40'E.