SS-211 Gudgeon on her first patrol with new captain LCDR R. Conway.
Heading out from Fremantle to her patrol area.
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Distant sampan NE Java. Orders are to only engage valuable merchant shipping or warships and make best speed to our patrol area.
We dive and break contact.
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Our navigator studying the charts.
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East of the Philippines. Sound contacts reported by sonar.
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A successful attack. Two torpedoes hit on the Jap freighter. She sunk to the bottom a few moments after this photo was taken.
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Heading SW through the Suringao strait to our patrol area.