Closure for some I hope.
The Japanese considered this cowardly and deployed their submarines almost exclusively against warships. The USS Yorktown actually survived the Battle of Midway but was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine while being towed back to Pearl Harbor on June 7, 1942.
The Yorktown and its' escorting destroyer Hammann sunk by the same submarine, thus became the last naval vessels sunk in the battle.
One of our submarines is missing….
Very interesting. Had me for a minute as there’s a USS Albacore that serves as a museum in Portsmouth (NH) harbor. Turns out this Albacore was the 3rd sub with the name. It was a research vessel to try out new features for submarines.
See https://www.ussalbacore.org/about
Here’s to the old pig boat sailors...a breed apart.
RIP salute to these brave kids
Now find the Triton SS-201. A distant cousin is on it. Lost about March 15, 1943
bkmk
“An American submarine that went missing in World War II is found off of Japan’s coast”
All those still alive, were rescued.
The The USS Albacore to be renamed Davey Jones’ Locker.
Sunken Ships of the Second World War is an interactive map showing the locations of 13,000 ships which were sunken during the Second World War.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunken-ships-of-first-second-world-war.html
Maps of 8,000 sunken ships from WW2.
Zoom in and drag around the map.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1x7Q2wEHD_NV-5MeFWcWB2BRH97Y&hl=en_US&ll=14.031067501663955%2C121.92722821284781&z=5
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/dxe7a6/map_of_all_ships_sunk_during_ww2_nearly_8000/
Stay off the ocean around Ireland!!
14,414 shipwrecks around Ireland.
https://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-3500-shipwrecks-around-ireland-most-remain-total-mystery-2018-6
USS Albacore....Still On Patrol....