Dread Knot....
I am not to the end yet but read the book a while back, if I recall correctly the book accepts the theory that a Japanese plane was the cause of her loss and its likely that her radar was hampered by the islands since she was operating off Bali.Even with more advanced air search radar in late war, planes could sneak up on subs, such as the story mentioned in the original post about the skipper being in the head.
Interesting read though because Martin Sheridan(author) was the only correspondent allowed to go on a war patrol with a US submarine during the entire war, he wrote the book about a year after the war ended.This was 1945 so action was fairly limited to diving to avoid planes, picking up downed pilots, shooting lone mines and attacking small craft so Sheridan's patrol was not as action packed if he had went out in say early and mid 1944 still an interesting read though.
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