Lost on 07 NOV 1944 with 85 officers and men when she was sunk off northern Hokkaido.
Winner of two Presidential Unit Citations, USS ALBACORE was on her eleventh war patrol and struck a mine while running submerged near a Japanese patrol craft that had detected her.
Until the war ended, USS ALBACORE was missing, presumed lost.
According to Japanese records captured after the war, a submarine assumed to be USS ALBACORE struck a mine very close to the shore off northeastern Hokkaido on 07 NOV 1944,