Well, They've found it....

[ASWnut101]

Navy Says Wreck Found Off Japan is Legendary Sub USS Wahoo

From Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet declared Oct. 31 that the sunken submarine recently discovered by divers in the Western Pacific is, indeed, the World War II submarine USS Wahoo (SS 238). "After reviewing the records and information, we are certain USS Wahoo has been located," said Adm. Gary Roughead, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. “We are grateful for the support of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park, and appreciate greatly the underwater video footage of the submarine provided by our Russian navy colleagues, which allowed us to make this determination

linkly linky: http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...ory_id%3d26378

Sorry if this was already pointed out, didn't see it on the topic list.

[Rose]

Ah, they have found "Mush's" final resting place at last. God bless him and the crew of the Wahoo.

[Ducimus]

Call me morbid, but i wish i could have seen pictures of the wreck. Not inside it of course, but just to see how the boat is on the exterior.

edit: nevermind:
http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-w...ble-photos.htm

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by Rose

Ah, they have found "Mush's" final resting place at last. God bless him and the crew of the Wahoo.

He's not dead.

He's just being extremely tenacious.

[TteFAboB]

Be more Aggressive!

[The Noob]

Sorry for the question, but i know nothing about the pacific theater, so what made the USS Wahoo so special?

[Kapitan]

when i saw the title i thought you ment the doctors had found your brain

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by The Noob

Sorry for the question, but i know nothing about the pacific theater, so what made the USS Wahoo so special?

Thats hard to explain really. Well, at least i find it hard to explaiin.

You could read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wahoo_(SS-238)


But theres really alot of stories about the Wahoo and her skipper. "mush" morton got his name cause well, i guess he ran off at the mouth alot. "mush" i beleive was short for "mush mouth". Wahoo's exploits are stuff of legend.

From the above link i just gave:

ahoo's orders were to reconnoiter Wewak, a Japanese supply base on the north coast of New Guinea. There was one large problem about reconnoitering Wewak: Wahoo had no charts of the harbor. However, it turned out that one of the motor machinists had bought a cheap school atlas while in Australia. It had a map of New Guinea with a small indentation labeled "Wewak". With that as a reference, Morton located the unmarked area on a large Navy chart and had a blowup made of the Navy chart with an ingenious device composed of a camera and signal lights. Then, to the crew's amazement, they learned that Morton's definition of "reconnoiter" meant to penetrate the harbor and sink whatever ships could be found.

Mush morton was known for his tenacity, he was arguably the most aggressive submarine skipper who ever sailed, and was reputed to have a burning hatred of japanese. Which is also cause for an incident of machinegunning which is often overlooked by historians. The details of which i wont get into, you could argo for or agains this incident given the situation at the time.

But Wahoo is known for alot more. Such as some of their status reports. One was reputed start with "Running gun battle today....." after which it gave the details. Obviously it invovled a high speed chase using his deck gun. The next day or two another report came from the wahoo, "Another running gun battle today, destroyer gunning, wahoo running".

To appreciate the wahoo, you just really have to sitdown and read all the stories about her, its kinda incredible.

[ASWnut101]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

when i saw the title i thought you ment the doctors had found your brain

Thanks, Kap