September 29, 1943
Today in World War II Pacific History
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WEDNESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 1943

China: General Stilwell issues "Program for China" in which he recommends that 60 Nationalist Divisions be reformed.

CBI (Fourteenth Air Force): In Burma, nine B-24s bomb Myitkyina and Sadon during routine ferry trips over the Hump.

SOUTH PACIFIC (Thirteenth Air Force): P-40s, P-38s, and P-39s join USN fighters in supporting a strike by USN dive bombers on a barge depot at Kakasa on Choiseul; other P-40's strafe and set afire a barge off Sambi Point.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC (Fifth Air Force): B-24's on armed reconnaissance attack scattered shipping in the Netherlands East Indies and Solomon Sea and Bismarck Sea. Lost on a training flight is B-25D "Axis Fate" 41-30053 pilot 1st Lt. Cecil O. Jones (KIA).

During a sweep to destroy Japanese barge traffic north of Kolombangara, destroyers USS Patterson (DD-392) and USS McCalla (DD-488) are damaged in collision, 07°36'S, 157°12'E.

USS Bluefish (SS-222) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Akashi Maru, 06°11'S, 126°00'E (see 25 September 1943).

USS Gudgeon (SS-212) damages Japanese gunboat Santo Maru off Saipan, 15°28'N, 145°57'E. Transport Kenryu Maru tows the gunboat to Saipan.