5 November 1943
South China Sea
USS Billfish was spotted by an ASW patrol near Singapore and depth charged for light damage before it escaped. It found an enemy tanker convoy shortly after and attacked. It missed, then the kaibokan escorts went after her and were quite accurate. Billfish was forced to surface by the damage and gunned down.
DEI
A destroyer-minesweeper escorting landing craft near Dili spotted an enemy sub and scored moderate depth charge damage against it before it got away.
CENTPAC and Truk
We lost 2 B-24s to the CAP over Truk and 2 more to flak. The bombers shot down a single George. The raid caused moderate airbase damage. A raid of 52 Avengers with 84 Hellcats followed that, with SBDs hitting the port. Flak got 2 Avengers and 3 SBDs. We shot down a George and a Nick, blew up an Emily ont he ground, and caused light airbase damage.
An enemy shock attack at Tinian resulted in 5207 enemy casualties and 682 to us.
Reinforcement
SS Angler arrives at Balboa
AP Gen. A.E.Anderson arrives at Eastern USA
No.81 Sqn RAF arrives at Aden
No.123 Sqn RAF arrives at Aden
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