Chronology of World War II
Monday, August 10
Japanese Cruiser
Kako
Sunk by US Submarine
The
Kako
was a Japanese
Furutaka
-class cruiser. Commissioned July 31, 1926, she had a displacement of 8,000 tons. On August 10, 1942, she was struck by three torpedoes from the American submarine USS
S-44
and sunk off Simbari Island.
