LCdr "Mush" Morton quote

"Another running gun battle today. Destroyer gunning, Wahoo running"

is how it's listed at:

USS Wahoo (SS-238), 1942–1943 – Third War Patrol, January–February 1943, Department of the Navy – Naval Historical Center

Obviously there's no hard transcript of a radio message.

I knew I had seen it that way in a Navy report somewhere in the past.  Thanks.

Actually there should be a "flimsy" of messages recieved, but very doubtful they have survived time.......but you never know with the USN.

Doh...of course you are correct.

I am very fond of all things Mare Island. Back in the 50's my Godparents lived there for a while, he was an SSBN XO and later a skipper. Spent many happy days there, as we lived within a days drive.

More recently I've pulled off the Highway a few times to just look around in there.

Thinking about all the MI boats on Eternal Patrol makes me get tears.

You aren't the only one.  Of the 23 MI built that conducted combat operations......7 are still out there.

USS Pompano SS-181

USS Swordfish SS-193

Uss Gudgeon SS-211

USS Trigger SS-237

USS Wahoo SS-238

USS Tullibee SS-284

USS Tang SS-306

"There is a port of no return,where ships

May ride at anchor for a little space

And then, some starless night, the cable slips,

Leaving an eddy at the mooring place...

Gulls, veer no longer. Sailor, rest your oar.

No tangled wreckage will be washed ashore".

-Jennings

 Here's Wahoo headed east into the Carquinez Channel. August 14, 1943.

Those big transmission towers in the far background carry the half mile long power cables over the strait, from Vallejo to the town of Crockett, site of the big C & H sugar factory.

This was my frankly incomparable Godfather, a family companion and personal friend.

http://www.ssbn630.org/id166.html

check out WARFISH by George Grider. he was on WAHOO during that time.

Wayne-  Thanks, going to have to get that one, along with Wahoo by O'Kane and Wake of the Wahoo.

The 3 of those should give a pretty good history and storyline of her life and stories behind some of her crew.

I've also got On Eternal Patrol, The Lost Boats of Mare island. it's a small locally published book that lists Grider and O'Kanes books in it's biblio. There's a chapter on each of the seven who remain on patrol. It's on Amazon, a pretty good book with a lot of photos.

Thanks G-  looks like my amazon order is going to be a little bigger-----