Stories From the US Submarine Force
The USS F-4 was not the pride of the fleet. She was not a grand battleship, nor a sleek destroyer cutting through the waves with an imposing presence. She was, however, an experiment, a step forward in the infancy of submarine warfare, when the U.S. Navy was still feeling out the dangers of the deep. Continue reading “USS F-4 SS-23”
By March of 1945, the Pacific War was reaching its final, ferocious stages. The island-hopping campaign had brought American forces ever closer to the Japanese homeland, and the noose was tightening around the Empire of Japan. The skies above were thick with carrier-based aircraft, and beneath the waves, the silent hunters of the U.S. Navy submarines prowled the sea lanes, disrupting what little remained of Japan’s merchant fleet. Among these hunters was the USS Kete (SS-369), a Balao-class submarine that had already tasted action and was proving to be a formidable adversary beneath the waves.
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In March of 1943, the Pacific War had reached a fever pitch. The U.S. Navy’s submarine force, already proving itself to be one of the most effective weapons in America’s arsenal, was actively hunting Japanese shipping in the vast, contested waters of the South Pacific. Submarines, operating in deadly cat-and-mouse games with Japanese destroyers, were crucial in strangling enemy supply lines. However, with every daring success, there was an equal measure of peril. It was in these waters, north of the Admiralty Islands, that USS Triton (SS-201) embarked on her sixth and final war patrol, never to return.
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Patrol Reports 