The next day, Japanese planes and ships joined in a two-hour attack on a submarine heard by Silversides, Sea Dog, Hackleback, and Threadfin in adjacent areas. Postwar records indicate she torpedoed and sank the repair ship Odate on 27 March. On 4 April, she was ordered to proceed to Midway, but she had not arrived by 1 May and was reported as presumed lost. The weather report was Trigger's last transmission. A weather report came from the submarine that day but no confirmation of her having received the message. On 26 March, she was ordered to join a wolf pack called "Earl's Eliminators" and to acknowledge receipt of the message. On 24 March, Trigger was ordered to begin patrolling west of the islands the next day, outside the 100-fathom (600 ft 180 m) curve, and to steer clear of restricted areas.
She reported the attack on 20 March, and the submarine was subsequently ordered to radio as many movements of the convoy as possible to help find a safe passage through a known mined area of the East China Sea. On 18 March, she attacked a convoy west of the islands, sinking the cargo ship Tsukushi Maru No.3 and damaging another. Connole) stood out to sea on 11 March to begin her 12th war patrol and headed for the Nansei Shoto area. Trigger (with new skipper Commander David R. She would return to duty but on West Coast for the remainder of the war.Ĭonfirmation Periscope camera shot from USS Trigger, of the sinking of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Okikaze. For this action, the ship was awarded the first ever US Navy Presidential Unit Citation. Her crew shot down one plane, but lost eleven of its members in the fight five killed, six missing, with an additional 12 critically wounded. At least one bomb hit McFarland's stern, knocking out her rudder and steering engine. The blazing barge was cut loose as the ninth plane made its run. While the first seven scored no hits, the eighth hit a gasoline barge in tow alongside the tender's starboard quarter. On 16 Oct 42', McFarland was unloading cargo and embarking wounded personnel in Lunga Roads when she was attacked by nine dive bombers. She was also at Pearl doing anti submarine duty on 7 Dec 41'. McFarland was towed to Boston Navy Yard by the destroyer Sturtevant. The training exercise was being undertaken by Arkansas, the battleship Florida, the auxiliary ship Antares and a flotilla of a dozen destroyers. McFarland was heavily damaged during the early morning of 19 September 1923 after being rammed on the port side forward of her bridge by the battleship Arkansas during night maneuvers off of the Cape Cod Canal.
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