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USS Amberjack (SS-219)
On 1 February 1943, the submarine was
ordered to move north and patrol the western approaches to Buka Passage. She
complied with these directions and made her first radio report on 3 February. Amberjack
had made contact on 1 February with a Japanese submarine 14 miles southeast of
the Treasury Islands. She also claimed to have sunk a
two-masted schooner by gunfire at a position 20 miles from Buka on the
afternoon of the 3d. At the time of this report, the submarine was ordered to
move south along the Buka-to-Shortland shipping lane and to also patrol east of
Vella Lavella.
In a second radio transmission on 4
February, Amberjack reported having sunk a 5,000-ton freighter laden
with explosives in a two-hour night surface attack on the 4th. During this
engagement, one crew member was killed by machinegun fire and one officer was
wounded in the hand. On the 8th, the submarine was directed to move to the west
side of Ganongga Island. Two days later, she moved south
to cover the traffic routes from Rabaul and Buka to Shortland Island.
The last transmission was received
from Amberjack on 14 February. She reported having been forced down on
the 13th by two destroyers, and that she had recovered an enemy aviator from
the water and taken him prisoner. All further messages to the vessel remained
unanswered. The submarine was reported as presumed lost on 22 March 1943. Her
name was struck from the Navy list on 21 June 1943.
MoMM1 Mervin W.
Allmon
RM3 William A.
BakerJr.
MoMM2 Paul S.
Banister
F1 Luther V.
Barr
S1 Renato
Bartoli
PhMC Arthur C. Beeman
LT R.P. Blauvelt
LCDR(CO) John A.
Bole
FC1 John F.
Bolze
SC2 Harold J.
Brant
Lcdr(XO) Henry E.
Brossy
S2 Maurice J.
Brousseau
EM1 Wilson N.
Buchan
TM3 Diego
Cacciato
S2 Leland J.D. Caldwell
F2 Elmer E. Chaffin
LT John F.
Cheney
M3 Raymond J. ChrzanT
TM1 Benjamin L. Clark
GM2 James L.
Coleman
MoMM2 William E.
Coultas
S1 Edward S. Davis
EM3 LeRoy C. Davis
F2 James DeGroot
ENS A.M. Demler
QM3 Donald
Ducharme
TM2 Alton
G.H. Eastman
RT1 Ernest J. Everett
S2 George H.
Gillard
MoMM2 Thaddeus
Gosciniak
MoMM2 John W. Hamilton
EM2 Lloyd G. Henderson
EM3 Don L. Hiatt
F2 William M.O. Hill
MoMM2 Vernon
T. Jackson
EM2 Homer E.
James
SM3 William L.
Jeter
SMC Thomas E.
Jewell
MoMM2 Francis P.
Kingston
MoMM1 Victor J.
Koreyva
S2 Robert L.
Lester
EM2 Raymond A.
Levesque
ENS James E.
Lewellyn
LT(jg) H.S. Lord
MoMM2 Joseph B.
LucasJr.
RM2 Marvin R.
Macy
MA2 Arthur R.
Massey
S1 Ray McDaniel
TM1 Robert A. McLean
MA1 Wallace Montague
TMC Charles R.
Muir
TM2 Harold B.
Ogilvie
MoMM1 Cleveland
M. Ouzts
EM2 Bruce F. Pavlin
F1 Henry
Pisarski
S1 John G.
Rakyta
RM2 James A.
Ranger
TM3 Chester
L. Runkowski
MoMM1 Lewis R.
Ryall
SC1 Coy K.
Sallee
ENS Daniel R.
Seidell
F2 Paul P.
Smorol
S1 Elwood R.
Speirer
S1 Chester
A. Springsteen
YN1 Francis T.
St.John
LT(jg) Richard G.
Stern
TM2 Henry A. Taylor
F1 Irby H.
Thurman
M2 William J.
Tobin
TM2 Paul B.
Trask
S2 John H.
Ullstrom
EM3 Alonzo G.
Ward
F3 Eldon I. Wilson
MoMMC Henry C.A. Winquist