The Patrol Zone

The Sargo class World War II submarine USS Swordfish (SS-193) was declared missing and presumed lost on January 12, 1945.
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Pacific Thunder Campaign cycle 12 includes the month October 1944. This month is memorable for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last and greatest major naval engagement of the Pacific War. The naval battle took place October 23 to 25, 1944, and resulted in near destruction of the Japanese Navy. Its aftermath witnessed the rise [...]

In December 1942, Argonaut departed Brisbane on her fourth war patrol. She was assigned to patrol in the hazardous area between New Britain and Bougainville, south of St. George’s Channel. On 10 January 1943 Argonaut spotted a convoy of five freighters and their destroyer escorts. An Army aircraft was by chance flying overhead and witnessed [...]

This article contains official CINCPAC press releases issued during August 1944.

The following joint Anglo-American statement on submarine and anti­submarine operations is issued under the authority of the President and the Prime Minister:

Washington, D.C., August 5, 1944. A Coast Guard-manned Destroyer Escort won a stirring battle with a German U-boat in the Atlantic recently when it blasted the undersea raider to the bottom. Location of the action was undisclosed.

Washington, D.C., August 3, 1944. The sinking of a German submarine by ramming and gunfire off the Atlantic coast recently through a coordinated attack by three destroyer escorts, two of them manned by Coast Guard personnel and one by the Navy, was described today by Lieutenant (junior grade) William D. Draper, USCGR, of 1408 Owen [...]

This article contains official CINCPAC and Navy Department Communiqués issued during August 1944.