Lost on 03 MAR 1942 near Java with no immediate loss of life while on her first war patrol.
USS PERCH survived two severe depth chargings in less than 200 feet of water by three Japanese destroyers. The crew abandoned ship and scuttled her.
Fifty-nine officers and men were taken prisoner, and were transported to a POW camp at Ofuna, Japan where they were forced to work mines until the close of WWII.
Fifty-three survived the war, six died as POWs.