LOST WITH ALL HANDS sAVE 2 - 07 OCT 1943

Sunk by a Japanese destroyer on 07 OCT 1943 with the loss of 56 officers and men when off Paramushiru, Northern Kuril Islands.

USS S-44 was on her fifth war patrol when, after attacking a target thought to be a merchant on the surface, USS S-44 found herself in a losing gun battle with a heavily armed Japanese destroyer.

Two crewmen were taken prisoner and survived the war.