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| Navy finds USS Wahoo. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=26378
"American Parachutists...devils in baggy pants...are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere..."
(An entry in a German officer's diary found after the Battle of Anzio)
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| Fifty miles across at their narrowest, the Tsushima Straits are Japan’s historic doors the Asiatic mainland. Over centuries ago Regent Hideyoshi’s armada sailed to battle the Koreans and send home 38,000 enemy ears pickled in wine. Upon them in 1905 crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian Fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking at the door last week was American. It had achieved one of the World War II’s most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Gunther Prien’s entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. raid in Tokyo Bay. Her Skipper, Cmdr. D.W. Morton, returned to port to have the torpedoes changed or checked, and requested that WAHOO be sent back to the Japan Sea for her seventh patrol. On 9 September, WAHOO again departed Pearl. Shortly afterwards, SAWFISH left Midway and also headed for this area. WAHOO was to pass through Etorofu Strait, in the Kurile Islands, and La Perouse Strait, between Hokkaido and Karafuto, and enter the Japan Sea about 20 September. She was to head south and remain below 43 degrees north after 23 September, and below 40 degrees north after 26 September. SAWFISH was to follow WAHOO, entering the Japan Sea about 23 September and patrolling the area north of WAHOO. No transmission was received from WAHOO, either by any shore station or by SAWFISH, nor was she sighted by SAWFISH after she left Midway. Here is a list of the crew that was lost - - Anders, F. MM3
- Andrews, J. S. EM1
- Bailey, R. E. SC3
- Bair, A. I. TM3
- Berg, J. C. MM3
- Browning, C. E. MOMM2
- Brown, D. R. LTJG
- Bruce, C. L. MOMM1
- Buckley, J. P. RM1
- Burgan, W. W. LT
- Campbell, J. S. ENS
- Carr, W. J. CGMA
- Carter, J. E. RM2
- Davison, W. E. MOMM1
- Deaton, L. N. TM1
- Erdey, J. S. EM3
- Fielder, E. F. LTJG
- Finkelstein, O. TM3
- Galli, W. O. TM3
- Garmon, C. E. MOMM2
- Garrett, G. C., Jr. MOMM2
- Gerlacher, W. L. S2
- Goss, R. P. MOMM1
- Greene, H. M. LT
- Hand, W. R. EM2
- Hartman, L. M. MM3
- Hayes, D. M. EM2
- Henderson, R. N. LT
- Holmes, W. H. EM1
- House, V. A. S1
- Howe, H. J. EM2
- Jacobs, O. MOMM1
- Jasa, R. L. MM3
- Jayson, J. O. CK3
- Johnson, K. B. TM1
- Keeter, D. C. CMOMMA
- Kemp, W. W. GM1
- Kessock, P. F1
- Krebs, P. H. S1
- Kirk, E. T. S1
- Lape, A. D. F1
- Lindemann, C. A. S1
- Logue, R. B. FC1
- Lynch, W. L. F1
- MacAlman, S. E. PHM1
- MacGowen, T. J. MOMM1
- Magyar, A. J. MM3
- Manalisay, J. C. ST3
- Mandjiak, P. A. MM3
- Massa, E. E. S1
- Maulding, E. C. SM3
- Maulding, G. E. TM3
- McGill, T. J. CMOMMA
- McGilton, H. E. TM3
- McSpadden, D. J. TM1
- Mills, M. L. RT1
- Misch, G. A. LTJG
- Morton, D. W. CDR
- Neel, P. TM2
- O'Brien, F. L. EM1
- O'Neal, R. L. EM3
- Ostrander, E. E. MM3
- Phillips, P. D. SC1
- Rennels, J. L. SC2
- Renno, H. S1
- Seal, E. H. Jr. TM2
- Simonetti, A. R. SM2
- Skjonsby, V. L. LCDR
- Smith, D. O. BM1
- Stevens, G. V. MOMM2
- Terrell, W. C. QM3
- Thomas, W. S1
- Tyler, R. O. TM3
- Vidick, J. EM2
- Wach, L. J. COX
- Waldron, W. E. RM3
- Ware, N. C. CEM
- White, W. T. Y2
- Whipp, K. L. MM2
- Witting, R. L. MM3
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"Let's Go Downtown" - Flight of the Intruder
http://www.327infantry.org/second/c_co Same Mud Same Blood - NBC documentary filmed 1967 RVN, chronicle Frank McGee
IMOFSGT Nelson P. Henry101st 2nd/327th -NO SLACKKIA October 28, 1967 in QuangTin Province RVN
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| Wow! The Wahoo and its CO, Mush Morton, were legends in the WW2 Silent Service for their aggressive tactics, especially against Japanese destroyers... Wahoo's long-time XO for most of its patrols, Dick O'Kane, later became a famous commander in his own right, commanding the Tang and becoming the highest scoring sub skipper of WW2 (and also earning the MOH) Not enough credit is ever given to the WW2 Silent Service for their contributions to victory against the Japanese. Even though they made up only 2% of the Navy, they accounted for fully 50% of all Japanese shipping sunk during the war, and that includes Naval and Merchant shipping. On top of that, they suffered the highest fatality rate of any branch of any service during WW2, including the Infantry
1/508th Abn Inf, 82nd Abn Div 81-83 1/4th Inf (Mech), 3rd Inf Div (USAEUR) 83-84 SGT\EIB\Recondo "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
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| I found out that Dick O'Kane lived in the same little town in California (I doubt many of you have heard of Sebastapol, CA) when I read his Obit in the local paper. I had lived there for 8 years when I read that and was so disappointed I hadn't known he was there. I would have done everthing I could to go and meet the man--and in a town of about 1000 folks it shouldn't have been too hard. I know he lived his final years in a beautiful, tranquil, albeit rather leftest world. RIP
"...my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me." He added, after a pause, looking me full in the face: "That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave" General "Stonewall" Jackson
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