World War II Database

• Home
• » Events
• » WW2 Timeline
• » 15 May 1943

• Weather data for 15 May 1943

• USS Gar attacked a Japanese convoy in the Philippine Islands, sinking cargo ships Moikai Maru and Indus Maru, hitting them with four of the twelve torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Stalin dissolved the Comintern. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• British Admiral Andrew Cunningham announced that "the passage through the Mediterranean was clear", and convoys from Gibraltar to Alexandria, Egypt resumed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• An American reconnaissance aircraft detected German submarine U-176 off Havana, Cuba. Nearby Cuban submarine chaser CS-13, escorting two freighters, was notified and closed in, attacking with depth charges and sinking U-176, killing the entire crew. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Famed Polish Jewish violinist Henri Czaplinski (aka. Genrikh Maksimovich Chaplinsky in Soviet documents) who had fought with Byelorussian partisans but now in Soviet captivity, was reported by Panteleimon Ponomarenko and Lavrentiy Tsanava to be a possible German spy. ww2dbase [CPC]

• 432nd Fighter Squadron (flying P-38 aicraft) of USAAF 475th Fighter Group was transferred to Dobodura No. 15 airstrip of Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Japanese troops surrounded Chinese troops near Baiyang, Hunan Province, China, inflicting heavy casualties. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down four P-40 fighters over Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, increasing his score to 40. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Hoe arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• The C6N Saiun carrier reconnaissance aircraft took its first flight. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Pilots of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 were transferred to Efate, New Hebrides for rest after serving 8 weeks in combat capacity. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Whale arrived off Wake Atoll. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• German Luftwaffe I./KG 55, flying He 111 bombers, departed from Sarabuz Russkiy Airfield in Krym, Russia for Stalino (now Donetsk), Ukraine. The transfer was in response to the Soviet counter-offensive toward Kharkov, Ukraine. ww2dbase [CPC]

15 May 1943 Interactive Map