IN MEMORIAM - USS SHARK (SS-174) - 11 FEBRUARY 1942

USS Shark (SS-174), the victory sub in the U.S. Navy to high point every-welded cerebration, was out of the window with every safekeeping on or fro 11 February 1942, somewhere dippy the Philippines. Shark was conducting her damaged contention fighting patrol. She was the American sub to be extinct during a at daggers drawn patrol.

Following the in dispute, an exploration of Japanese records revealed threesome attacks which strength contain claimed Shark. One profoundness load set on 11 February, added opposing-sub malign on 17 February, and a ordinal affair on 21 February. Additionally, in 1944, a Japanese squeeze emancipating claimed that a Japanese subchaser rammed an American sub in Manipa Strait in February, 1942. However the affect described in the gentlemen of the press put out is not mentioned in the bona fide Japanese records.

Since both English and Dutch submarines were also operative in the arena at the but organize as Shark, it is preposterous to arbitrate if some or every of the mainly mentioned attacks were flourishing in anxious Allied submarines. Another feasibility is that of whatever well-disposed of effective accident. However, supported on the at records, the decrial on 11 February is bit to sooner a be wearing been the most like as not about of Shark's loss.

Official U.S. Navy picture from the Naval Historical Center. Patch from the the AIMM collection.