[pickrell]

In fact, (in case anyone is still interested), Commander Dudley "Mush" Morton was Richard O'Kanes CO aboard the Wahoo. Together they pioneered many of the techniques used later in the war to such good effect. And in a further irony, when the Wahoo met it's end, it was probably because of a premature explosion of one of it's torpedoes. That explosion drew in several Jap destroyers onto the sister boat Wahoo was operating from.

Since Wahoo became famous earlier by sinking several Jap destroyers,(and even an entire 4 boat convoy on one patrol), a man like Morton at the helm was not about to leave a fellow sub to be worked over because of one of Wahoo's defective torpedoes. He ran in to provide interference, and as things happen in war- a destroyer dropping a pattern of depth charges... got lucky.

Batfish if I recall got a Japanese submarine, and the USS Jack knocked off four (count 'em..4!) tankers in one battle!

But mostly we remember men like Gary Gilmore, who when mortally wounded in a strafing attack, called down the hatch before he closed it, sealing his fate, "Take her down!"

I have to believe, that as long as this country produces men like that, we cannot lose.

[Poundstone]

"But mostly we remember men like Gary Gilmore, who when mortally wounded in a strafing attack, called down the hatch before he closed it, sealing his fate, "Take her down!"

Uh, wrong Gilmore. Howard Gilmore said "take her down."

Gary Gilmore, in his last words before being executed by a firing squad in Utah in 1977, said "Let's do it."