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Deck logs, action reports, track charts and other records from American commands are presented here as follows:

DESTROYER DIVISION 12 (TASK GROUP 31.2) (Moosbrugger)

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Placeholder 1.8mb Cover pages.
Orders.
Battle Plan.
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943.
Track Chart.
First Endorsement (RAdm. T.S. Wilkinson).
War Diary.

USS DUNLAP (DD 384)

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Placeholder 5.8mb Deck logs: 1–5 August 1943.
Deck logs: 6–7 August 1943.
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943.
Torpedo Chart; Track Chart.

USS CRAVEN (DD 382)

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Placeholder 2.9mb Deck logs: 6–7 August 1943.
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943.
Action Report: Statements of selected officers and men.
Operational remarks (War Diary): 6–7 August 1943.

USS MAURY (DD 401)

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Placeholder 2.6mb Action Report: 6–7 August 1943.
First Endorsement (Frederick Moosbrugger).
Second Endorsement (T.S. Wilkinson).
Third Endorsement (H.E. Stassen).
Operational remarks (War Diary): 6–7 August 1943.
Track Chart.

DESTROYER DIVISION 15 (Simpson)

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Placeholder 1.7mb War Diary (incl. Track Chart).
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943.

USS LANG (DD 399)

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Placeholder 2.7mb Action Report: 6–7 August 1943 (Wolfong, CO).
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943 (Southard, XO).
Track charts.
Operational remarks (War Diary): 6–7 August 1943.
Action Report: 9–10 August 1943 (Wolfong, CO).
Track charts.

USS STERETT (DD 407)

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Placeholder 1.8mb Deck log cover pages, July 1943.
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943 (F.G. Gould, CO).
Torpedo and Track Charts.
Deck logs.

USS STACK (DD 406)

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Placeholder 1.7mb Operational remarks (War Diary): 6–7 August 1943.
Action Report: 6–7 August 1943 (R.A. Newton, CO).
Track Chart.
First Endorsement (Rodger Simpson).
Second Endorsement (Harold P. Smith).
Third Endorsement (T.S. Wilkinson).
Fourth Endorsement (R.B. Carney).
Fifth Endorsement (J.H. Newton).
Sixth Endorsement (J.L. Kauffman).