09-15-14, 01:13 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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Originally Posted by nionios
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A footnote to that as the Pampanito is in San Francisco and still one of my favorite destinations...right behind the Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien. "Of the 1,318 POWs on the Rakuyo Maru sunk by Sealion, 159 had been rescued by the four submarines: 73 on Pampanito, 54 on Sealion, and the 32 found by Queenfish and Barb. It was later learned that the Imperial Japanese had rescued 136 for a total of 295 survivors. Of the 900 POWs on the Kachidoki Maru sunk by Pampanito, 656 were rescued by the Imperial Japanese and taken to prison camps in Japan. Over 500 of these men were released by American troops in August, 1945 at the close of the war." http://www.maritime.org/pamphist/patrol3.htm
 USS Pampanito on a clear day.... by San Francisco standards!
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