July 1944, USS S-28, now under the command of Lieutenant Commander Jack G. Campbell, United States Naval Reserve, began training operations off Oahu with United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Reliance (WPC-150). The antisubmarine warfare (ASW) exercises continued into the evening of the 4th. At 1730, the day's concluding exercise began. Contact between the two vessels became sporadic, and, at 1820, the last brief contact with USS S-28 was made and lost. All attempts to establish communications failed. Assistance arrived from Pearl Harbor, but a thorough search of the area failed to locate the submarine. Two days later, a diesel oil slick appeared in the area where the S-boat had been operating, but the 8,400-foot depth of the water at the site of the sinking exceeded the range of available rescue and salvage equipment, so no attempts were made to rescue the crew or raise the hull of the submarine.
A Court of Inquiry failed to establish the cause of the loss of USS S-28 and the 49 men who perished in that submarine, but there was much regret that the S-boat disappeared during a training exercise and not in a war zone, which would have been a little easier to accept.
USS S-28 (SS-133) was awarded one battle star for her actions during her seventh war patrol during the Second World War, when the old warrior got herself onto the score sheet by sinking a converted Japanese gunboat on 19 September 1943.
A Court of Inquiry failed to establish the cause of the loss of USS S-28 and the 49 men who perished in that submarine, but there was much regret that the S-boat disappeared during a training exercise and not in a war zone, which would have been a little easier to accept.
USS S-28 (SS-133) was awarded one battle star for her actions during her seventh war patrol during the Second World War, when the old warrior got herself onto the score sheet by sinking a converted Japanese gunboat on 19 September 1943.
July 1944, USS S-28, now under the command of Lieutenant Commander Jack G. Campbell, United States Naval Reserve, began training operations off Oahu with United States Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Reliance (WPC-150). The antisubmarine warfare (ASW) exercises continued into the evening of the 4th. At 1730, the day's concluding exercise began. Contact between the two vessels became sporadic, and, at 1820, the last brief contact with USS S-28 was made and lost. All attempts to establish communications failed. Assistance arrived from Pearl Harbor, but a thorough search of the area failed to locate the submarine. Two days later, a diesel oil slick appeared in the area where the S-boat had been operating, but the 8,400-foot depth of the water at the site of the sinking exceeded the range of available rescue and salvage equipment, so no attempts were made to rescue the crew or raise the hull of the submarine.
A Court of Inquiry failed to establish the cause of the loss of USS S-28 and the 49 men who perished in that submarine, but there was much regret that the S-boat disappeared during a training exercise and not in a war zone, which would have been a little easier to accept.
USS S-28 (SS-133) was awarded one battle star for her actions during her seventh war patrol during the Second World War, when the old warrior got herself onto the score sheet by sinking a converted Japanese gunboat on 19 September 1943.
A Court of Inquiry failed to establish the cause of the loss of USS S-28 and the 49 men who perished in that submarine, but there was much regret that the S-boat disappeared during a training exercise and not in a war zone, which would have been a little easier to accept.
USS S-28 (SS-133) was awarded one battle star for her actions during her seventh war patrol during the Second World War, when the old warrior got herself onto the score sheet by sinking a converted Japanese gunboat on 19 September 1943.
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