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#Uss drum ss 228 manuals#

The Drum sank an official JANAC total of 80,580 tons (15 ships) of Japanese shipping, or an estimated wartime total of 118,000 tons (19 ships) of Japanese shipping. * UNOFFICIAL The 14th war patrol was unofficial, as the war ended just days before Drum could reach station at Saipan. You can use the custom Google search box below to search the entire website, including all of the war patrol reports. I encourage you to attain your own copy of the original war patrol reports if you desire further information. There are more after-the-fact details written in each patrol, and I am not including that information, at least at this time. Blame the ancient microfiche! Whenever I could not determine a letter or number, you will see a "?" in its place. were illegible on my copies of the original reports. In addition, some letters, numbers, sketches, etc. While I have done my best to reproduce these reports by eye, hand, and keyboard, error is possible and likely. At the bottom of each report you will see three navigational links as well: previous patrol, back to the top of the current patrol, or next patrol. If you click on that button, you will be brought back to this page where you can choose another war patrol report to read.

Thanks to Ron Martini, submarine veteran, and Mark Allen, USS Batfish (SS-310) Historian, for their continued aid in answering my many questions.Īs you visit each war patrol report, note that there is a button on the upper-right of each report that says "Click here to return to the War Patrols index".

#Uss drum ss 228 manuals#

He specializes in selling scanned copies of historic military manuals and documents on disc.

Thanks to Shelley Shelstad of History on CD-ROM for the images of ships that you see on many of the war patrol reports.

Thanks to John Clear of Submarine Memorabilia, who sells scanned copies of WWII submarine war patrol reports on disc.

He has also provided tremendous input and answered the numerous questions that I have had. He created these charts and provided them for use on this website.

Thanks to Tom Bowser, retired submarine veteran and USS Drum volunteer, for the war patrol charts that you see on each war patrol report.

The USS Drum (SS-228) made a remarkable official 13 (thirteen) war patrols in WWII from Apthrough April 2, 1945, and also had an unofficial 14th (fourteenth) war patrol in WWII from Jthrough August 30, 1945.