Heard The Sirens & The Hovering Choppers.Organized Japanese Resistance On Peleliu Ends.tanker Fort Lee, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-181 on 2 November 1944 (see 16 November 1944). tanker Tumacacori rescues 17 survivors of U.S.
USAAF B-25s and P-38s (13th Air Force) and motor torpedo boats PT-492, PT-497, PT-524, and PT-525 begin attacks against Japanese convoy in Ormoc Bay, the former damaging escort vessels Okinawa and Shimushu. Japanese TA Operation (fourth phase) convoy reaches Ormoc Bay and unloads men and materiel brought from Manila (see 10 November 1944). submarines on 6 November 1944, breaks her anchor and drifts aground off Santa Cruz, Luzon. Submarine Queenfish (SS-393) attacks Japanese convoy TAMA-28 in East China Sea, and sinks gunboat Chojusan Maru about 50 miles west of Kyushu, 31☁5'N, 129☁0'E. Submarine Haddo (SS-255) sinks Japanese fleet tanker No.2 Hishi Maru in Mindoro Straits, 12☂4'N, 120☄5'E. Submarine Barbero (SS-317) attacks Japanese convoy and sinks merchant tanker Shimotsu Maru about 250 miles west of Manila, 14☃2'N, 116★3'E. PROJECT MIKE continues as USAAF B-24s (42d Bomb Squadron) lay 10 mines in Futami Ko, Chichi Jima. These strikes, together with bombardment by vessels of LCI(L)-Flotilla 13, will continue on 10 November, rendering it untenable for the invaders (see 15 November 1944). Marine fighter aircraft based on Peleliu commence air strikes on Japanese on Ngeregong Island.
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