Pacific Wrecks 2026 Daily Update
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• 2-13  February 13, 1942 at 6:20pm USS President Taylor ran aground on a reef west of Canton Island.
• 2-12  February 12, 1942 bad luck USS Whipple (DD-217) is damaged in collision with Hr. Ms. De Ruyter in Prigi Bay on Java.
• 2-11  February 11, 1942 sunk is USS Shark SS-174 likely by gunfire from destroyer Yamakaze that claims a submarine as sunk.
• 2-10  February 10, 1942 three LB-30s from 19th Bombardment Group (19th BG) bomb and damage Chitose in Makassar Strait.
• 2-9  February 9, 1942 P-40B Warhawks escort a Boeing Stearman Model 75 biplane pilot Jesús A. Villamor to take photographs over Ternate
• 2-8  February 8, 1942 after an artillery bombardment the Japanese 25th Army crosses the Johore Strait to land on northwest Singapore.
• 2-7  February 7, 1942 Commander Naval Forces Southwest Pacific Area establishes its headquarters at Tjilatjap on Java.
• 2-6  February 6, 1942 damaged is river gunboat USS Luzon (PR-7) hit by a shell in South Harbor off Corregidor.
• 2-5  February 5, 1942 lost is PBY-5 Catalina 2309 pilot Lt(jg) Richard Bull shot down over Ambon
• 2-4  February 4, 1942 lost is Do-24K X-37 destroyed during Japanese air raid at Morokrembangan Seaplane Base.
• 2-3  February 3, 1942 lost is B-18 Bolo 36-338 pilot Lt. Col Austin A. Straubel shot down by Zeros over Java.
• 2-2  February 2, 1942 the War Department designates General Joseph Stilwell Chief of Staff to Supreme Commander, China Theater.
• 2-1  February 1, 1942 first U.S. carrier offensive bomb and bombard Wotje, Kwajalein, Jaluit, Makin, and Mili.
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• 1-31  January 31, 1942 Malaya defense force completes their withdrawal to Singapore and blows causeway to the Malaya Peninsula.
• 1-30  January 30, 1942 During the night, Japanese forces begin landing at two locations on Ambon Island in the Netherlands East Indies.
• 1-29  January 29, 1942 war correspondent George A. Weller departs Singapore for Java.
• 1-28  January 28, 1942 Japanese resistance ends on Longoskawayan Point in southern Bataan Peninsula on Luzon.
• 1-27  January 27, 1942 elements of the 4th Marine Regiment participate in the containment of Japanese on Longoskawayan Point.
• 1-26  January 26, 1942 first use of large caliber sea coast artillery since the U.S. Civil War when Battery Geary on Corregidor opens fire.
• 1-25  January 25, 1942 the Phibun government of Thailand declares war on the United States.
• 1-24  January 24, 1942 the Battle of Balikpapan was the first surface action by the U.S. Navy since the Spanish-American War.
• 1-23  January 23, 1942 The Roberts Commission on the Japanese attack on Pearl Haror concludes with 2,173 printed pages.
• 1-22  January 22, 1942 survey ship USS Sumner (AG-32) arrives at Bora Bora.
• 1-21  January 21, 1942 Japanese carrier planes strike Salamaua, Lae and Bulolo plus carrier planes from Shokaku strike Madang.
• 1-20  January 20, 1942 Japanese carrier planes strike Rabaul. Lost is CA-7 Wirraway A20-179 pilot F/O John C. Lowe (MIA)
• 1-19  January 19, 1942 in the early morning Motor Torpedo Boat PT-31 was scuttled on a reef north of Mayagao Point on Bataan.
• 1-18  January 18, 1942 river gunboat USS USS Tutuila (PR-4) is decommissioned and her crew flown out of Chungking.
• 1-17  January 17, 1942 Royal Navy HMS Jupiter (F85) sinks Japanese submarine I-60 in the southern Sunda Strait.
• 1-16  January 16, 1942 lost is TBD-1 Devastator 0335 pilot ACMM Harold F. Dixon and crew survived 34 days at sea until rescued.
• 1-15  January 15, 1942 U.S. Marine Brigadier General Henry L. Larson was appointed the first military governor of American Samoa.
• 1-14  January 14, 1942 cargo ship MS Herstein arrives at Simpson Harbor off Rabaul and beings unloading military cargo.
• 1-13  Added Kachidoki Maru (Kakko Maru, SS Jakin, SS Wolverine State, SS President Harrison) sunk September 12, 1944.
• 1-12  Added USS Refuge AH-11 (Blue Hen State, President Garfield, President Madison, USS Kenmore AP-62) scrapped 1948.
• 1-11  Updated B-24J Liberator 42-73115 pilot 1st Lt. Harold S. Mulhollen crashed January 8, 1944 on Wowoni Island.
• 1-10  Added B-17G Flying Fortress 44-83779 pilot Major General James E. Parker crashed March 19, 1946 on Formosa (Taiwan).
• 1-9  Added James Jones veteran and author of From Here To The Eternity, The Pistol, The Thin Red Line and Whistle.
• 1-8  Added U.S. Army, 25th Infantry Division "Tropical Lightning", 161st Infantry Regiment (161st IR) "First Washington" in the Pacific War.
• 1-7  Added U.S. Army, 25th Infantry Division "Tropical Lightning", 35th Infantry Regiment "Cacti" that served in the Pacific War.
• 1-6  Added U.S. Army, 25th Infantry Division "Tropical Lightning", 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds" that served in the Pacific War.
• 1-5  January 5, 1944: Lost is PB4Y-1P Liberator 32019 pilot Lt. Larren M. Allen on a low level reconnaissance mission over Kwajalein Atoll.
• 1-4  January 4, 1942: Japanese forces occupy Manila on Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1-3  January 3, 1942: American, British, Dutch, and Australia (ABDA) command is created to oppose the Japanese advance.
• 1-2  January 2, 1942: Sunk is SS Malama scuttled by the crew and bombed by E7K2 Alf floatplane from Aikoku Maru.
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