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This was not a safe thing to do. Going close in and beating the enemy to downed pilots was one of the most dangerous duties of the war for submariners. 86 Submarines rescued more than 500 downed aviators from 1943 to 1945 including the first President Bush, who was then the youngest carrier pilot in the US Navy at age 18 (Grumman TBF). My father was picked up by Tigrone, close inshore, in May 1945. That was the trip Trigone broke the record for most rescues. Tigrone put in at Iwo to dump the Zoomies. Some of the pilots picked up by Tigrone were Australians, RAAF, who were flying P-51s off Iwo in support of B-29s over Japan.
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Originally Posted by CCIP

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Originally Posted by dean_acheson

I don't think the Germans lost any boats to 'friendly fire,' unlike the fleet boats. Of course, I could be wrong about this, I just don't remember any U-Boats being sunk by a German DD or a JU-88....

In part, of course, because unlike the Americans, Germany had virtually nil air/surface presence in the theater. I really don't recall any incidents of this sort that I've read of.

There was one U-boat, U-222, which sunk with almost no survivors after being accidentally rammed by another U-boat
http://uboat.net/boats/u222.htm

U-99

"The boat, while inbound to Bergen with a sick crewman, sailed into the path of the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst and its scout plane mistook the boat for a British submarine attacking it causing damages that forced the boat back to Germany for repairs"

Looks like everyone was a bit jumpy when it came to submarines.;)

You know the old saying."The only good submarine is a dead submarine"

Ro-41 got sunk on the 23rd not 31st.
but i still dont quite think jap subs got the snook and the kete...;)

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22 March 1945:
320 miles E of Okinawa. LtCdr Honda reports sighting an enemy destroyer. It is the last message received from RO-41.

SE of Okinawa. That same day, Honda attempts to attack units of Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Marc A. Mitscher's (former CO of HORNET, CV-8) fast carrier Task Force 58.
LtCdr V. J. Soballe's USS HAGGARD (DD-555) is acting as a picket 12 miles ahead of the formation. At 2342, a contact is detected by radar on the surface at 25,000 yards. HAGGARD and UHLMANN (DD-687) are detached to investigate. The contact disappears but HAGGARD acquires the target by sonar and drops depth charges. Just before midnight, a submarine broaches off HAGGARD's port beam. As the destroyer's 40-mm. AA rakes the submarine's conning tower, LtCdr Soballe goes hard left rudder and rams the sub's starboard side abaft the conning tower.
23 March 1945:
After midnight, the submarine - probably RO-41 - sinks by the stern with all 82 hands at 22.57N, 132.19E.**

read more here http://www.combinedfleet.com/RO-41.htm

you guys sould really read the book I-boat capitan.

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Originally Posted by I-25

you guys sould really read the book I-boat capitan.

I-25, where did you get your copy?

I would like to get a view from the other side.