25-27 SEPTEMBER 1943 LOSS OF POMPANO On Thursday, September 30th, 1943, the staff of COMSUBPAC in Pearl Harbor awaited the arrival of USS POMPANO (SS-181), completing her seventh war patrol. She had last been seen five weeks earlier on 20 August, Read More
28 FEBRUARY 1945 PhM1c JOHN HARLAN WILLIS By D-Day + 9 on Iwo Jima, intense fighting was raging in several acres of low hills and gullies that would come to be known as the “meat grinder” just west of the central Read More