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May 8, 1943:
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff approved the recommendations contained in the Strategic Plan for the Defeat of Japan, with the objective of the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire.
Three Japanese destroyers were sunk on the same day. The Kagerō was bombed and sunk southwest of Rendova by American aircraft; the Kuroshio struck a mine and sank near Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands; and the Oyashio was disabled by a mine and then sunk by aircraft near Kolombangara.