On 25 November 1943, about 50 miles west of Makin, Radford depth-charged the submarine I-19. I-19 was lost with all hands. Her name was struck on 1 April 1944. Radford was not sunk.
1943-11-25
Loss of I-19
About 50 miles west of Makin
Sunk in this fight
One ship.
Created for this encyclopedia, not a scanned historical map. Base map: Natural Earth, public domain; the coast is generalized. North is up. Not a surveyed track. The pin is the postwar Japanese-record position of the submarine sunk on 25 November 1943, 03°10' N, 171°55' E, from the Japanese ship history on combinedfleet.com. The same entry places that point about 50 miles west of Makin. It is not a surveyed wreck. No course is drawn.
