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From: vrdxhq!vrdxhq.verdix.com!bsmart@uunet.UU.NET (Bob Smart)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Submarine Successes
Summary: Last WWII sub attack
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Date: 26 Apr 89 04:10:23 GMT
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From: vrdxhq!vrdxhq.verdix.com!bsmart@uunet.UU.NET (Bob Smart)

In article <5891@cbnews.ATT.COM>, rupp@cod.nosc.mil (William L. Rupp) writes:
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> How about the U.S.S. Indianapolis, sunk in August of 1945?  I'll
> bet that was the last *U.S.* ship sunk by a sub.  Perhaps we sank
> a Japanese ship after that, but maybe not.  I think the Indianapolis
> was sunk very close to the cease fire.

The USS Torsk conducted the last successful submarine attack by a US
sub during WW2. I can't remember the exact date but it was August 1945
( look in Silent Victory by Clay Blair I'm pretty sure it is there)
The USS Torsk is now on display in Baltimore Harbor see it at USENIX!

Bob Smart (bsmart@verdix.com)