LOST WITH ALL HANDS - 20 MAR 1945

Lost on 20 MAR 1945 with the loss of 87 officers and men at the end of her second war patrol.

While steaming eastward, USS KETE sent in a weather report from a position south of Colnett Strait. Scheduled to arrive Midway by 31 MAR 1945, she was neither seen nor heard from again. 

Probably sunk near Okinawa, by a Japanese submarine that itself was subsequently lost.