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Originally Posted by theluckyone17

Getting through the Pacific theater alive seems to amount to not doing anything really stupid, and not having pure dumb luck kick in.

Tell that to the crews of the:

USS SEALION (SS 195) December 10, 1941 USS S 36 (SS 141) January 20, 1942 USS S 26 (SS 131) January 24, 1942 USS SHARK (SS 174) February 11, 1942 USS PERCH (SS 176) March 3, 1942 USS S 27 (SS 132) June 19, 1942 USS GRUNION (SS 216) July 30, 1942 USS S 39 (SS 144) August 16, 1942 1943 USS ARGONAUT (SS 166) January 10, 1943 USS AMBERJACK (SS 219)February 16, 1943 USS GRAMPUS (SS 207) March 5, 1943 USS TRITON (SS 201) March 15, 1943 USS PICKEREL (SS 177) April 3, 1943 USS GRENADIER (SS 210) April 22, 1943 USS RUNNER (SS 275) May 28, 1943 USS R 12 (SS 89) June 12, 1943 USS POMPANO (SS 181)August 29, 1943 USS GRAYLING (SS 209) September 9, 1943 USS CISCO (SS 290) September 28, 1943 USS S 44 (SS 155) October 7, 1943 USS WAHOO (SS 238) October 11, 1943 USS DORADO (SS 248) October 12, 1943 USS CORVINA (SS 226) November 16, 1943 USS SCULPIN (SS 191) November 19, 1943 USS CAPELIN (SS 289) November 23, 1943
1944 USS SCORPION (SS 278) January 5, 1944 USS GRAYBACK (SS 208) February 26, 1944 USS TROUT (SS 202) February 28, 1944 USS TULLIBEE (SS 284) March 26, 1944 USS HERRING (SS 233) June 1, 1944 USS GUDGEON (SS 211) June 7, 1944 USS GOLET (SS 361) June 14, 1944 USS S 28 (SS 133) July 4, 1944 USS ROBALO (SS 273) July 26, 1944 USS FLIER (SS 250) August 13, 1944 USS HARDER (SS 257) August 24, 1944 USS SEAWOLF (SS 197) October 3, 1944 USS ESCOLAR (SS 294) October 17, 1944 USS DARTER (SS 227) October 24, 1944 USS SHARK II (SS 314) October 24, 1944 USS TANG (SS 306) October 24, 1944 USS ALBACORE (SS 218) November 7, 1944 USS GROWLER (SS 215) November 8, 1944 USS SCAMP (SS 277) November 9, 1944 1945 USS SWORDFISH (SS 193) January 12, 1945 USS BARBEL (SS 316) February 4, 1945 USS KETE (SS 369) March 20, 1945 USS TRIGGER (SS 237) March 26, 1945 USS SNOOK (SS 279) April 8, 1945 USS LAGARTO (SS 371) May 3, 1945 USS BONEFISH (SS 223) June 18, 1945 USS BULLHEAD (SS 332) August 6, 1945

"I can assure you that they went down fighting and that their brothers who survived them took a grim toll of our savage enemy to avenge their deaths," Vice Admiral C.A. Lockwood, USN.