Depth Charged for Seventeen Hours By John T. Woltjen, 19 years old

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1. Wow.

Thank you, and them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Blackfish

World War II Edit
Blackfish was assigned to Submarine Squadron 50 (SubRon 50), United States Naval Forces in Europe. On 15 October 1942, now under the command of Lieutenant Commander J. F. Davidson, she departed Montauk Point, New York on her first war patrol in support of Operation Torch. From October 1942-July 1943, Blackfish completed five war patrols in waters extending from Dakar, West Africa, to the north of Iceland. She is credited with having sunk a German anti-submarine trawler, Patrol Boat No. 408 with two torpedoes off the north coast of Spain on 19 February 1943. She was damaged by a second German vessel and had to return to port early for repairs.[7]

She returned to the United States in July 1943, and after refitting, proceeded to the Southwest Pacific. From 19 October 1943 – 14 August 1945, she completed seven war patrols in an area including the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, South China Sea, East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea. Blackfish sank one Japanese cargo vessel of 2,087 tons during her Pacific patrols.