Lost Boats - July
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died...rather we should thank God that such men lived...
~ George S. Patton
Lost on or about 30 JUL 1942 with the loss of 70 officers and crew while on her first war patrol near Kiska in the Aleutians.
She radioed that she sank two sub-chasers and damaged a third, and was ordered back to Dutch Harbor.
USS GRUNION was never heard from nor seen again. Reported overdue, assumed lost with all hands 5 Oct 1942.
Her mangled remains were found in the Bering Sea in 2006 off the Aleutian Island of Kiska.
Lost between 26 JUN 1943 and 04 JUL 1943 with the loss of 78 officers and men. USS RUNNER was on her third war patrol and is presumed to have struck a mine.
Prior to her loss, she reported sinking a Japanese freighter, the Seinan Maru, on 11 JUN 1943 and a passenger-cargoman, Shinryu Maru, off the Kurile Islands on 26 JUN 1943, so the USS RUNNER was lost between then and 24 JUL 1943, when she was scheduled to return to Midway.
Lost on 04 JUL 1944 with the loss of forty-nine officers and crew.
USS S-28 was conducting training exercises off Hawaii with the USCGC RELIANCE (WSC-150).
After USS S-28 dove for a practice torpedo approach, USS RELIANCE lost contact. No distress signal or explosion was heard. Brief contact with USS S-28 was made and lost. All attempts to establish communications failed. Two days later, an oil slick was found near where S-28 last submerged.
A Court of Inquiry was unable to determine the cause of the loss of USS S-28.
Lost on 26 JUL 1944 with the loss of 81 officers and crew while on her third war patrol.
USS ROBALO struck a mine about two miles off the coast of Palawan, in the South China Sea.
Four men survived and swam ashore, then were captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. Unfortunately, they transferred on a Japanese destroyer and lost when that destroyer was sunk.