Not to mention the Dorado,which was sunk in the Caribbean by a U.S. Bomber.
The sad part about the Seawolf Incident was that the attack by the Rowell happened in a "no fire" zone. All U.S ships were notified that some of our subs were going to be passing through that area over the next few days and were not authorized to attack ANY subs in that area. What makes it worse is that after the first depth charge attack the Seawolf tried to communicate with the Rowell using it's sonar...I assume in morse code...but since the Wolf wasn't using the "recognition code of the day" the Rowell decided that it was a Japanese sub trying to trick them and proceded to fire a hedgehog salvo...and since the Wolf wasn't attempting any evasion maneuvers it is believed she was hit by at least two of them.
Course the Captain and crew have always maintained that they sunk a Japanese sub and not the Seawolf,even when the war was over and captured Japanese docs showed that the only IJN Sub anywhere near that area was never even detected...let alone attacked.
IMO That Captain should have been relieved of command and courtmarshalled for his disregarding of orders and the Japanese should have given him a medal for his taking out the notorious Seawolf.
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