Finding of USS Grayback

Eichhörnchen · 02-19-20, 04:29 AM

Just came across this:

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/a-ww...stery-1.606884

Bilge_Rat · 02-19-20, 09:37 AM

another mystery solved.

Despite what the article claims, the fate of the USS Grayback was a mystery until now. Many U.S. subs disappeared during the war. In most cases, their fate was easily solved by reviewing Japanese records postwar, but there was no mention of the Grayback.

There was, as the article states, a report by a IJN carrier pilot who claimed to have hit and sunk a sub in the same general area at about the same time, but those reports were notoriously unreliable. Japanese (and U.S.) pilots were always filing wildly exaggerated claims: misidentifying ships, claiming hits that never happened, even claiming attacks on ships when none were there. Many subs that were claimed as sunk had merely dived undamaged to escape the air attack.

RIP to the crew of U.S.S. Grayback.

the fate of 17 of the 52 U.S. submarines lost in action in WW2 is still unknown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tes_submarines

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Bilge_Rat Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: standing watch... Posts: 3,793 Downloads: 344 Uploads: 0	another mystery solved. Despite what the article claims, the fate of the USS Grayback was a mystery until now. Many U.S. subs disappeared during the war. In most cases, their fate was easily solved by reviewing Japanese records postwar, but there was no mention of the Grayback. There was, as the article states, a report by a IJN carrier pilot who claimed to have hit and sunk a sub in the same general area at about the same time, but those reports were notoriously unreliable. Japanese (and U.S.) pilots were always filing wildly exaggerated claims: misidentifying ships, claiming hits that never happened, even claiming attacks on ships when none were there. Many subs that were claimed as sunk had merely dived undamaged to escape the air attack. RIP to the crew of U.S.S. Grayback. the fate of 17 of the 52 U.S. submarines lost in action in WW2 is still unknown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tes_submarines __________________