Monthly Archives: November 2011

Another JANAC Blooper

Posted on November 28, 2011 by subsowespac

The JANAC postwar assessment scored the USS Snook (SS-279) with 75,473 tons sunk in seventeen enemy vessels.  One of them was the 6,886-ton cargo vessel Arisan Maru. However, the analysis conducted by John D. Alden and Craig R. McDonald in United … Continue reading →

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Spitkits And The Picayune

Posted on November 27, 2011 by subsowespac

A Japanese Army Mitsubishi Ki-51 “Sonia” caught the USS Bullhead unawares on 6 August 1945 off Bali and got hits with two sixty kilogram bombs on the off guard submarine.  Oil and bubbles rose to the surface.  The Bullhead was … Continue reading →

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The Oil Slick In Blackett Strait

Posted on November 26, 2011 by subsowespac

The USS Grampus completed training exercises off Brisbane on 12 February 1943.  She bid farewell to her practice ship and headed north for her sixth and final patrol.  Her orders were to patrol south of New Britain.  She was never … Continue reading →

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