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USS Trout (SS-202)

On 8 February, the submarine began her 11th and final war patrol. TROUT topped off with fuel at Midway and, on the 16th, headed via a great circle route toward the East China Sea. She was never heard from again. Japanese records indicate that one of their convoys was attacked by a submarine on 29 February 1944 in the patrol area assigned to TROUT. The submarine badly damaged one large passenger-cargo ship and sank the 7,126-ton transport SAKITO MARU. Possibly one of the convoy's escorts sank the submarine. On 17 April 1944, TROUT was declared presumed lost.

Japanese records examined after the war showed that destroyer ASASHIMO, presumably an escort in the convoy of SAKITO MARU, detected a submarine and dropped 19 depth charges. Oil and debris came to the surface and the destroyer dropped a final depth charge on that spot. TROUT went down with all 81 hands.

F2 Roy E Abbott

BK3 Albert W Adams

GM3 James B Barker Jr.

ENS C.V Beckley

RM3 Thomas W Bennett Jr.

PhMC John J Boland

S1 Robert V Bond

FC1 Norbert A Brandt

TMC Robert J Brockman

CSC Eugene Brownlow

EM3 Kenneth T Callan

LTjg Russell E Carrico

LCDR(CO) Albert H Clark

EM1 Joseph B Clarke

GM2 John E Coakley

EM1 Louis J Copt

EM2 Frank J Corey

ENS Elmer F Crain Jr.

YN3 John R Crowley

MoMM1 E.H Cunningham III

RMC Felice P Decesare Jr.

MoMMC Francis J Decker

S2 William H Dortch

RM1 Jack G Ehlerding

SM2 John E Ewell

TM3 Ora R Eye

TM3 Stanley Festin

MoMM2 Wilson O Finney

RM3 Gordon I Frogner

TM2 Joseph N Frontino

MM1 Chester F Frost

TM2 Robert L Garrison

LT W.H Gaylord

MoMM2 Robert C Gionet

SM1 Alvin L Gonyer

YNC Hubert R Gurney

S1 Richard P Gwynn

EM1 Odell Hall

TM1 Albert M Halterman

MoMM3 Sherwood J Hanford

EMC Donald W Harrison

MoMM1 James E Hoy

S1 Paul W Hughes

EMC Robert L Hughes

TM2 Albert W Johnson

MoMM2 Robert W Kaiser

ENS Morris H Keltner

QM2 Ralph Kerr

BM2 Elbert King

MoMM1 Gilmore J Knutson

EM3 Roland Kunstman

SM2 Albert S Lewis

MoMM1 Joseph F Magner

MoMM2 Peter J Massett

MoMM2 Lawrence L Mauer

SC3 William B McDuffie

EM3 Franklin A Million

SM1 Calvin C Millner

TM2 George D Mollohan

TM3 Thomas J Murphy

LT L.E Myers Jr.

RM2 Kenneth E Nearman

ENS Ralph R Perry

TMC James W Richardson

GM3 Ladd R Rowan

MoMM2 Jacob E Ruder

MoMM1 Kenneth I Scott

TM3 Samuel R Sebring

MoMMC Arthur L Smith

MoMMC William W Stanford

F2 Lawrence M Swentzel

EM3 Harold F Taylor

MoMM1 Arthur T Teisen

TM3 Everett E Thoits

S1 Albert J Thurman

RT3 Harold T Tierney

EM3 John T Tracy

SM3 Ernest J Walker

SM2 John B Wilkowski

QM1 William A Winter

LT(XO) H.E Woodworth