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Thursday, September 15, 2022

September 15, 1942. The Devastating Torpedo Run of the I-19.

USS Wasp after being hit.

The Japanese I-19 fired fatal torpedo shots at the USS Wasp and USS O'Brien, and damaged the USS North Carolina off of Guadalcanal in a single torpedo run of six torpedoes.

The USS O'Brien being hit, the Wasp is burning on the left.

The I-19 had a devastating career in the Pacific War until its luck ran out on November 25, 1943, when it was sunk by the USS Radford.

On the same day, Italian frogmen placed limpet mines on the British SS Ravens Point at Gibraltar, sinking her, but not beyond repair.

The United States Army Air Force bombed Kiska for the second day in a row.