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Smoky Mountain Base
Submarine Veterans
100 Disston RD
Oak Ridge, TN 37830-4040
secretary@smokymountainbase.org
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Tolling of the Boats for
February
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USS Barbel (SS-316)
Lost on Feb 4,1945 with the loss of 81 officers and men on
her 3rd war patrol. Based on Japanese records, she was
bombed near the southern entrance to the Palawan Passage.
The day before, she reported she survived 3 depth charge
attacks.
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USS Shark I (SS-174)
Lost on Feb 11,1942 with the loss of 59 officers and men on
her 1st war patrol. Shark was the 1st US submarine sunk by
enemy surface craft in the Pacific. She was most likely sunk
by depth charges.
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USS Amberjack (SS-219)
Lost on Feb 16,1943 with the loss of 72 officers and men on
her 3rd war patrol. Off Rabaul, she was attacked by a Japanese
patrol plane, attacked by a torpedo boat and then depth
charged by a subchaser.
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USS Grayback (SS-208)
Lost on Feb 26,1944 with the loss of 80 officers and men on
her 10th war patrol. She appears to have been caught on the
surface in the East China Sea by a Japanese carrier plane
whose bombs made a direct hit. During this patrol she sank 4
ships totaling 21,594 tons and was tied for 11th in the number
of ships sunk.
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USS Trout (SS-202)
Lost on Feb 29,1944 with the loss of 79 officers and men on
her 11th war patrol. She was sunk by escorts in the middle of
the Philippines Basin after sinking a passenger-cargoman and
damaging another in a convoy. She carried out several notable
special missions, including carrying over two tons of gold
bullion out of Corregidor in February 1942. |
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