Photo #: NH 42275
USS Wahoo (SS-238)
Provides food and water to the crew of a becalmed fishing boat,
circa January 1943.
The original caption, released with this photograph on 3 March
1943, reads: "Act of Mercy -- While on the war patrol during
which she sank a Japanese destroyer and a convoy of four ships,
the submarine Wahoo, commanded by LCdr. Dudley W. Morton,
USN, of Miami, Fla., came across a small fishing boat, becalmed.
Three of the crew of nine aboard the fishing vessel had died
when the submarine found her. Three remaining crew members were
without food and water. This picture shows members of the submarine's
crew handing water and food to the men in the fishing vessel.
A few days later the Wahoo destroyed the Japanese destroyer
and convoy."
View looks forward from Wahoo's machinegun platform.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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