LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT SUBMARINES.

"Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which


shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the

submariners" Sir Winston S. Churchill



LITTLE KNOWN FACTs about submarines

The first Japanese casualty to American arms during WW-II

was an aircraft shot down on Dec. 7th, 1941 by the Tautog

(SS199)



The first submarine force casualty suffered in WW-II was

G. A. Myers, Seaman 2, shot through the right lung when

Cachalot (SS170) was strafed during the Pearl Harbor raid.



The first "live" torpedoes to be fired by a Pearl Harbor

submarine was fired by the Triton (SS 201)(Lent), 4 stern

tubes fired on the night of Dec. 10, 1941.



The first Pearl Harbor boat to be depth charged was the

Plunger(SS 179) (White) on Jan. 4, 1942 - 24 charges.



The first "down the throat" shot was fired by Pompano on

Jan. 17, 1942.



The first Japanese warship to be sunk was torpedoed by

Gudgeon (Grenfell) at 9 AM on Jan. 27, 1942, the IJN I-173

(SS).



The first major Japanese warship lost to submarines during

WW-II was the heavy cruiser Kako which fell victim to S-44

(Moore) on Aug. 10, 1942.



The first submarine to fire on a battleship was Flying

Fish (Donaho) Sept. 1942, damaging a Kongo class BB.



The first submarine to fire on an aircraft carrier was

Trout (Ramage), Damaging Taiyo, August 28, 1942.



The first Japanese ship to be sunk by gunfire was by

Triton (Kirkpatrick), near Marcus Island on Feb. 17, 1942.

At the time, Kirkpatrick was the youngest skipper to get

command at Pearl.



The first man to die in submarine gun action was Michael

Harbin, on Silversides, May 1942.



The first rest camp for submarine crews was established at

a military encampment at Malang, in the mountains of Java,

89 miles from Soerabaya. Three days were allotted to

submarine crews there in January 1942.



The first TDC (Mark 1) was installed in the Cachalot.



The Plunger was the first boat to sustain an "arduous"

depth charge attack and survive.



In September 1936, Cdr. C. A. Lockwood Jr., assumed

command of SubDiv 13 composed of the new boats Pike,

Porpoise, Shark and Tarpon.



On December 31, 1941, Captain Wilkes evacuated Corrigidor

on board the Seawolf to establish a new base at Soerabaya,

Java. Simultaneously Capt. Fife boarded Swordfish and

sailed to Darwin, Australia.



Expressing the view that Japan could not hope to be

victorious in a war with the U.S., Admiral Yamamoto was

"shanghaied" to the post of Commander of the Combined

Fleet (from the Naval Ministry) to thwart a possible

assassination at the hands of his many dissenters.



A survivor of the Jap carrier Kaga, at the Battle of

Midway, told how some of his shipmates saved themselves by

clinging to the air flask of a torpedo fired from Nautilus

which hit the carrier and failed to explode, the

concussion separating the warhead from the airflask.