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At random: The USS Blenny SS 324, on her last patrol of WW II sank 63 vessels. One by torpedo and 62 by deck gunfire, demolition charges set by boarding parties or by burning. On several occasions shotguns were fired through the boats bottoms. These were all vessels under the 500 ton JANAC limit for tonnage sunk and not counted in the "official" totals or ships sunk. This is also a record for the most vessels ever sunk by a submarine on one patrol.

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smoore3

Posted 2008-02-29 6:41 AM (#13317)

Subject: World War II U.S. Submariner POWs

The Naval Institute Press will be publishing my book "Presumed Lost" around the first of 2009. It covers the U.S. subs Perch, Grenadier, Tang, Robalo, S-44, Sculpin, and Tullibee and the ordeals the survivors of these boats went through as POWs of Japan before returning home.

I am interested in family members who might care to submit wartime-era photos of their veteran who was lost or became a POW from these boats. Also, would like any stories from families I have not yet contacted.

Regards,

Stephen L. Moore

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