personnel and let them go after 90 minutes alongside the junk. At 16:30 on 20 July 1945, Bugara boarded another large junk which had departed Bangkok with a cargo hold full of bagged rice. The junk's crew claimed the cargo was destined for China, not the Japanese, and Bugara confiscated the junk’s logbook and released the crew. At 20:30, Bugara inspected a third junk, whose crew told a similar story of transporting the vessel's cargo of rice to China and not to Japanese troops. Schade subsequently sent a message to Commander, Task Force 71, requesting approval his of actions of letting supplies go through. 23–24 July On 23 July 1945, after diving to avoid an Imperial Japanese Navy Kawanishi H8K Type 2 (Allied reporting name "Emily") flying boat headed out from the beach off the coast of Lem Chong Pra, Schade ordered a commando party ashore heavily armed with demolition equipment. After six hours, Bugara picked up commandos at 04:00 on 24 July 1945. Highly embarrassed, they reported that the jungle was so thick they had not been able get off the beach. At 13:35 on 24 July 1945, Bugara examined a Singapore-bound schooner carrying a 10-ton military cargo of airplane wheels and tires, 15 cases of airplane parts, and metal stock and sugar. She removed the schooner's crew and sank the vessel with gunfire. At 14:25, she stopped the 120-gross register ton Japanese junk Hiap Seng Maru, which was carrying a cargo of sugar and sewing machines to Singapore. After boarding and examineing Hiap Seng Maru, Bugara sank her with gunfire. With the schooner's and Hiap Seng Maru′s crews and their boats on her deck, Bugara moved to a point off shore, gave the crew members bread, and released them. 25 July On 25 July at 14:05, Bugara′s crew boarded a 75-gross register ton schooner bound for Singapore with a cargo of 50 tons of rice and sank her with gunfire after taking off her crew. At 15:35, Bugara halted a 25-gross register ton junk sailing from Singapore carrying a Japanese cargo of sugar and matches . Although most of Bugara′s crew thought the junk's crew were Japanese, their nationality could be proven, so Bugara released them and sank their ship with gunfire. At 16:24, Bugara′s raiding party boarded an empty 20-gross register ton coastal cargo ship left abandoned by her Japanese crew, and Bugara left it, planning to