АҚШ Суасты Кемасының Соғыс Тарихы

Submarine of the United States

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and one hit the cargo ship, before Pogy went deep to sit out an attack of 22 depth charges. She surfaced in the darkness to find the cargo ship dead in the water with the destroyer circling her. Pogy launched two torpedoes, both hits. On 13 December Pogy sank 3,821 ton transport Fukkai Maru leaving Palau loaded with troops. refn|group=fn|According to Cressman, Fukkai Maru was only damaged. She then attacked and sank a cargo ship on 5 May, and a medium cargo ship on 13 May. Three days later Pogy sank a 20 ton sampan by gunfire, and captured five of her crew. On 20 May, Pogy destroyed a small trawler and arrived back in Pearl Harbor 29 May. She departed Pearl Harbor 1 June for a West Coast navy yard overhaul, arriving at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco. 8 June. Pogy left for Pearl Harbor 17 September.

After a training period, she got underway 13 October for her seventh war patrol, in the Ryukyu (Nansei) islands and waters south of Japan, but made no contacts before returning to Midway 2 December. On 27 December Pogy sailed on her eighth patrol in the Bonin and Volcano Islands. On 14 January 1945 she made an unsuccessful torpedo attack on a convoy of three cargo ships. No other opportunity to attack presented itself during the patrol, and the ship returned to Midway 11 February.

On 12 March 1945 Pogy got underway for her ninth patrol in the area south of Tokyo Bay. On 19 April 1945, she was on lifeguard duty in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Honshu, Japan, at when a United States Army Air Forces B 24 Liberator mistakenly strafed her and dropped a bomb which detonated as she passed through a depth of 30 feet (9 m) while submerging. The strafing inflicted minor but extensive damage on Pogy, but she suffered no casualties and was able to remain on patrol. On 29 April Pogy rescued ten Army aviators from the downed B 29 Superfortress The Queen Bee, and got underway for Saipan to transfer them. On 6 May she departed Saipan for Pearl Harbor arriving 15 May for refit.

On 2 July Pogy departed Pearl Harbor for the Sea of Japan on her tenth and final war patrol. She made a run under the minefields and patrolled in the "Emperor's private ocean" until V J Day. Hunting was better on this patrol. On 27 July Pogy sank a large cargo ship with two torpedoes, damaged a 10,000 ton tanker on 2 August, and on 5 August destroyed the 2,200 ton cargo ship Kotohirasan Maru. She returned to Midway 21 August with her World War II career completed.

Pogy departed Midway 5 September for Panama and then the East Coast of the United States. She arrived New York 3 October.

Pogy was placed out of commission in the US Atlantic Reserve Fleet 20 July 1946 at Naval Submarine Base New London in New London, Connecticut. She was struck from the Navy List 1 September 1958 and sold 1 May 1959.

Pogy received eight battle stars for service in World War II.