Talk:USS Pickerel (SS-177)

Sunk

I rewrote this

"Pickerel was the only American submarine in that area at the time, but she could not both have been sunk on the 3rd and also sunk the cargo ship on the 7th.

"A possible explanation is that she was damaged on April 3rd and was lost sometime after 7th April."

to this

"A large quantity of oil floated to the surface, which was often enough for Japanese ASW ships to believe their target was sunk. It is likely Pickerel's bunkers leaked. Since there were several other ASW operations in the area in that period, <ref>Clay Blair, Jr., ''Silent Victory'' (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975), p.409.</ref> and Pickerel was the only American submarine in that area, one of these other attacks, sometime after 7th April, probably claimed her."

I base that on extensive reading in this area, including the named sources, as well as Goldstein & Dillon's Pearl Harbor Papers.

I added these as sources:

• Beach, Edward L. "Ned", Jr. Submarine!. Henry Holt, 1952.
• _____. Run Silent, Run Deep (a novel). Pocket Books, 1972.
• _____. Dust on the Sea (a novel). Dell, 1972.
• Grider, George W., as told to Lydel Sims. War Fish. Little, Brown and Company, 1958.
• Holmes, Wilfred J. "Jasper" Undersea Victory. Doubleday, 1966.
• O'Kane, Richard H. Clear the Bridge!. Rand McNally & Co., 1977.
• ______. Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II. Presidio Pres, 1987.

If anybody's wondering, I've read them all at least once... Trekphiler 15:39 & 17:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't seem terribly useful to list the Complement for a boat in 1945 when it was sunk in 1943Nickpheas (talk) 20:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)