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USS Harder (SS-257)

HARDER and HAKE remained off Dasol Bay, searching for new targets. Before dawn 24 August 1944 they sighted a Japanese minesweeper and a three-stack Siamese destroyer. As HAKE closed to attack, the destroyer turned away toward Dasol Bay. HAKE broke of her approach, turned northward, and sighted HARDER's periscope about 600 to 700 yards dead ahead. Swinging southward, HAKE then sighted the minesweeper about 2,000 yards off her port quarter swinging toward them. To escape the charging minesweeper, HAKE started deep and rigged for silent running. At 0728 she heard 15 rapid depth charges explode in the distance astern. She continued evasive action that morning, then returned to the general area of the attack shortly after noon. She swept the area at periscope depth but found only a ring of marker buoys covering a radius of one-half mile.The vigorous depth charge attack thus ended the career of HARDER, and she went down with all hands.

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