АҚШ Суасты Кемесінің Соғыс Жолы

Submarine of the United States

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submerged and damaged another before being forced to dive by aircraft on 13 June. She picked up a surveying party on the west coast of Bougainville on 14 July and returned to Brisbane for refit on 2 August 1943.

Guardfish left Brisbane for her sixth war patrol on 24 August 1943, landing a reconnoitering party on Bougainville and then moving into cruising waters. She sank the 5,460 ton Kasha Maru on 8 October and subsequently spent two days as lifeguard ship during the air strikes on Rabaul. Guardfish embarked another reconnoitering party on 19 October at Tulagi, landed them on Bougainville, and took vital soundings in Empress Augusta Bay before re embarking the Marine party on 28 October. These important missions were carried out two days before the American landings at Bougainville. Guardfish reached Brisbane, completing her sixth patrol on 3 November 1943. On 3 December 1943 Guardfish was damaged in a collision with an unknown tanker. Turning to the shipping lanes between Truk and Guadalcanal, Guardfish began her seventh war patrol on 27 December 1943, sinking 10,024 ton oiler Kenyo Maru on 14 January 1944. She then closed Truk and sank the destroyer Japanese destroyer Umikaze on 1 February in an attack on a convoy. After serving briefly as lifeguard ship off Truk she arrived at Pearl Harbor 18 February and from there returned to San Francisco for repairs nine days later.

Guardfish again put to sea from San Francisco and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 1 June. She then joined submarines Thresher, Piranha, and Apogon to form the coordinated attack group known as the "Mickey Finns", commanded by Captain W. V. O'Regan in Guardfish. The submarines patrolled the shipping lanes around Formosa with spectacular success, Guardfish sinking 5,863 ton auxiliary Mantai Maru, 2,838 ton cargo ship Hizan Maru, and 5,215 ton cargo ship Jinsan Maru southwest of Formosa on 17 July. After damaging another freighter 18 July, Guardfish sank the cargo ship Teiryu Maru the next day, barely escaping the attacks of her escorts. She arrived at Midway for refit on 31 July 1944, and for her performance on the eighth patrol was awarded a second Presidential Unit Citation. Sailing the Sea of Japan as a member of another wolf pack on 23 August 1944, Guardfish and the submarines, Thresher and Sunfish, had a 40 minute surface gun battle with sampans on 2 September. On 25 September Guardfish attacked and sank 873 ton cargo ship Miyakawa Maru #2 and returned to Pearl Harbor on 24 October 1944.