While at the Batfish, I was watching a crewman interview he was a motor mac, and he said one time they got too close to a sea mine and could hear the chain of the mine scraping against the hull right around the fore and aft engine rooms
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U.S.S. Batfish "The champion Submarine-killing sub of WWII"
Official tonnage: 12,332
Sank 3 subs in 3 days
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