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Gato-class USS Grunion (SS-216) - she sunk off of Kiska around 30 July 1942, due to accidents caused/related to circular run of own torpedo.
Gato-class USS Grunion (SS-216) - she sunk off of Kiska around 30 July 1942, due to accidents caused/related to circular run of own torpedo.
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The truth about the USS Grunion is that she sank after being hit by a 76 mm cannonball fired by the Japanese cargo ship Kano Maru.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250120190133/http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08216.htm
Gato-class USS Wahoo (SS-238) - she gained fame as an aggressive & highly successful submarine after Lieutenant Commander Dudley Walker "Mush" Morton became her skipper. She was sunk by Japanese aircraft in October 1943 while returning home from a patrol in the Sea of Japan.
Wiki is the source for each submarine's history.
I don't know the author, photos taken possibly during SSN-720 inactivation in dry dock at PSNS & IMF, 2019-2020.
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