The Patrol Zone

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 [...]