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INCLUDING JAPANESE SUBMARINE SUNK BY UNITED STATES UNDERWATER CRAFT. DURING YEAR OF PACIFIC PATROLLING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 24. In listing the exploits of an unnamed American submarine, which sank 10 Japanese ships in a year's operations against the enemy supply lines from Indo-China to the South Pacific, the Navy Department revealed that the submarine sank a Japanese submarine within sight of an enemy base.
Lieutenant-Commander William Ferrall, the commander of the submarine, said it was the first known instance of an American submarine sinking another in this war. He said, “We discovered the Japanese submarine while we were patrolling submerged. They were on the surface near the base, and they never saw us. We fired a single torpedo and the Japanese submarine filled up and sank rapidly. We saw no survivors. They never knew what hit them.” The American submarine sank a total of 50,000 tons of enemy shipping, including seven loaded cargo ships and two troop transports.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1943, Page 3
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