Looks like a little blue suppository.
La Perouse(sp?) Strait was a common way of getting into the Sea of Japan. It was mined, but the depths were for submerged vessels. Surface vessels coul dget through with no problem if I remember correctly. This usually meant a surfaced night run, it only took part of a night at flank to get through I think.
I believe they suspect Wahoo had been damaged from a depth charging she took a day or so before. I believe I remember there neing a IJN report that stated they saw an oil trail(or maybe Capt. O'Kane of the USS Tang speculatd this). She either hit a mine trying to slip through wounded and submerged or was caught on the surface trying to limp out. I believe IJN reports 2 or 3 DD/DEs or something catching her...but this is all from memory. I need to go back and read it again.
There were two sinkings that choke me up everytime, the lose of the Wahoo and Capt Morton & crew, and the sinking of the USS Tang by a here own circling torpedo. It was the last fish, at night, on the surface against a wounded ship they were trying to finish off before going home. He survived only because the explosion threw him clear from the bridge/conning tower, i think only couple others survived too.
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