Morton was the only notable skipper to open up on the Japanese and Indian POW that were in the water. As described in "Unrestricted Warfare", Morton had a vengence like no other. His posted signs throughout Wahoo, "Sink the Sunza B!tches" would pretty much wrap up how Morton felt about the Japanese and how he was going to handle it. He never hid the fact of his outright hatred of the Japanese. In fact, on one patrol Morton exacted so much damage and sinking of everything he saw that the Japanese thought there was a wolfpack and to avoid the area Morton was patrolling.
Anyway, as read in the link, US subs named after fish. When these names ran out, they used the same fish but the names used in other countries. For example, USS Torsk. Torsk I believe is Belgium as name of a fish.
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