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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Atsuta Maru


As Pompano shifted her patrol area to the main route between Japan and the East Indies, a large transport ship escorted by one destroyer caught her eye on 30 May 1942. Running to a position ahead of the convoy, she waited until her victim was only 690m away, scoring solid hits with two Mark 10 torpedoes which sank Atsuta Maru two and a half hours later.

The Pompano itself did not survive the war. She left Midway on 20 August, bound for Hokkaidō and Honshū and was never heard from again. Pompano was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 January 1944.






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