August 10th, 1942 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Luftwaffe bombers raid Colchester in Essex.
Trawler HMS Anticosti commissioned and loaned to RCN.
Rescue tug HMS Lariat commissioned.
GERMANY:
U-979 and
U-980 laid down.
U-200 and
U-712 launched.
EUROPE: The RAFs' area bombing offensive is threatened as the
Germans start jamming the Gee navigation system.
U.S.S.R.: Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: Shipping loss: MS "TSch-405 "Vzrivatel"" - by field artillery, close to Eupatoria (later raised) (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
Submarine P.555 commissioned.
Destroyer HS Kanaris commissioned.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The British trawler Islay sinks the Italian
submarine Scire off Haifa.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Off New Ireland Island in the Bismarck Archipelago, the IJN's
Cruiser
Division 6, which had inflicted one of the worst defeats of the war on Allied
surface ships in the Battle of Savo Island yesterday, are nearing Kavieng. At
0750 hours, the submarine USS S-44 (SS-155) sights the formation, four heavy
cruisers, their track less than 900 yards (823 meters) away. At 0806 hours, the
submarine fires four torpedoes at the rear ship, HIJMS Kako, only 700
yards (640 meters) away. By 0808, all four torpedoes have exploded; heavy
cruiser KAKO is sinking, and S-44 has begun her escape. By 0812 hours, Japanese
destroyers have started depth charging, without success; S-44 reaches Brisbane,
Australia, on 23 August.
The first aircraft lands on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. The aircraft, a PBY-5A Catalina, is assigned to the Commander, South Pacific Force.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: In the Aleutian Islands, the USAAF's 11th Air Force dispatches 5 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 3 B-24 Liberators to bomb Kiska Island targets; fighters and AA down 1 B-24.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Two men from U-135 are killed in an aircraft attack (Matrosenobergefreiter Emil Hafner, Matrosenobergefreiter Erhard Pömpner).
U-155 sank SS Strabo
U-438 sank SS Condylis Convoy
SC-94
U-438 sank SS Oregon Convoy
SC-94
U-510 damaged SS Alexia
U-600 sank SS Vivian P. Smith
U-660 sank SS Cape Race
Convoy SC-94
U-660 damaged SS Condylis
Convoy SC-94
U-660 sank SS Empire Reindeer
U-660 damaged SS Oregon
Convoy SC-94
U-77 sank SS Kharouf
U-98 damaged USS Bold (AMc 67)
Destroyer ORP Blyskawica and HMS Broke receives orders to reinforce the
escort of Convoy SC-94.