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CHAPTER V.WAHOO.

Dudley W. Morton, command-ing officer of Wahdo, was a manof original ideas and independentthinking.

Submarine doctrine called forshooting several torpedoes at eachtarget, in a spread, in order to

take into account possible ma-

neuvers to avoid, errors in solutionof the fire control problem, or mal-

function of torpedoes. No quarrelcould really be had with this pro-cedure, so long as a submarinewas apt to see and be able toshoot only a few ships per patrol.

But in three successive patrolsWahoo had returned before thecompletion of her normal time onstation, with all torpedoes ex-pended. Morton knew he had theknack of searching out targetswhere other men could not findthem.

If you know you are going tosee plenty of targets—so ran hisargument—why not shoot only onetorpedo at each ship, and acceptthose occasional misses? If a sub-marine fires three fish per salvo,and sinks eight ships with her 24torpedoes, is that as effective indamaging the enemy as a sub-marine which fires single shots andsinks 12 ships with 24 torpedoes?

The problem, according to Mush,lay simply in the number of con-tacts you could make. So he askedfor, and received for his fourthpatrol, the hottest area there was—the Japan Sea!

The Japan Sea is a nearly land-locked body of water lying betweenJapan and the Asiatic mainland.It can be reached from the opensea in only three ways—through

the Straits of Tsushima, Tsugaruor La Perouse. The only other pos-sible entrance is through the Tar-tary Strait, between Sakhalin Is-land and Siberia, which is tooshallow for seagoing vessels and,anyway, under the control of Rus-sia.

Itwas known that the Japanesehad extensively mined all possibleentrances to “their” sea, and thatthey were carrying on an enor-mous volume of traffic in its shel-tered waters with no fear what-ever of allied interference.

Chance to Test Theory.If Wahoo could only get into

this lush area, Mush figured, sheshould find so many targets thatshe would have an ideal opportu-nity to try out his theory. Heknew the entrances were minedbut he also knew that it takes anawfully good mine field to com-pletely close up such a large pas-sage as La Perouse of Tsushima,and that his chances of runningthrough on the surface above theanti-submarine mines (which, ofcourse, would be laid at depths

calculated to trap a submergedsubmarine) would be good. Healso was banking on probable lax-ness and inattention on the partof the Japanese defenders, andon taking them by surprise.

So on August 2, 1943, Wahoodeparted Pearl Harbor for theJapan Sea, carrying with her adetermined captain and an en-tirely new team of officers. Execu-tive Officer Dick O’Kane had been

ASLEEP IN THE DEEP—This scene through the periscope ofthe submarine Wahoo shows another Japanese freighter as itheads for the bottom, a victim of the sub’s torpedoes.

—U. S. Navy Photo.

detached to assume command ofthe new submarine Tang, thenbuilding at Mare Island NavyYard.

On August 14, Wahoo transitedLa Perouse Strait, on the surfaceat night, at full speed. Thoughdetected and challenged by theshore station on Soya Misaki, sheremained boldly on her course,ignoring the signal, and havingdone his duty the watcher in thestation went back to sleep, leavingall navigational lights burning asthough it were still peacetime.

Mush Morton was certainly rightabout one thing. He entered theSea of Japan on August 14; thatsame night Wahoo sighted fourenemy merchant ships, steamingsingly and unescorted. In all, shecarried out four separate attacks,three of them on the same ship,firing only five torpedoes in all.

And here fate dealt Morton hermost crushing blow! Faulty tor-pedoes!

Time after time Wahoo sightsthe enemy’s vital cargo carriersand tankers. Time after time shemakes the approach, goes throughall the old familiar motions whichhave previously brought such out-standing success—and time aftertime there is nothing heard in thesound gear, after firing the tor-pedoes, save the whirring of theirpropellers as they go on—and on—and on! Once, indeed, the sick-ening thud of a dud hit is heard,but most of the time the torpedoessimply miss, and miss, and miss!

Nine Futile Attacks.For four days Wahoo valiantly

fought her bad luck, and made,in all, nine attacks upon nearlyas many enemy ships. Resultsachieved, zero! Heartbreaking,hopeless, utter zero!

On August 29, Mush Morton and

his Wahoo stormed into PearlHarbor and tied up at the sub-

marine base. This time thebooming exuberance with whichthis sub had been wont to returnfrom patrol was totally lacking.

But such was the fame of Wahooand her skipper that there wasquite a crowd of men and officerson the dock to greet her.

One or two made an effort tosay something cheerful to the ob-viously suffering commanding of-ficer, but nothing they could say

or do could allay the fact thatMorton, who up to this time had

been the most successful skipperof the whole force, had returnedfrom his last patrol empty-handed.As soon as he could, Mush hurriedto the office of ComSubPac.

Once there he gave voice, in nouncertain terms, to the angerwhich possessed him. Virtuallypounding his fist on the table—-after all, you don’t pound yourfist at an admiral, even one sounderstanding as Admiral CharlesA. Lockwood —he insisted thatsomething was radically wrong,and that corrective measures hadto be taken immediately.

The admiral and his staff lis-tened thoughtfully, for this wasby no means the only report theyhad received about malfunctioningof the submarine’s major weapon.

Half-formed thoughts aboutsabotage, inefficiency or improperpreparation hovered above thisgathering, and the upshot of itwsa that the commander sub-marines. Pacific Fleet, gave hisword to Comdr. Dudley Mortonthat he would find out what waswrong with the fish if itkilled him.

SUBMARINE: . Wahoo Rides Into Dangerous Japanese WatersBy Comdr. Edward l Beach, u. s. N. 0" a Heart-Breaking and Tragic Mission

In their hearts, the members ofhis staff echoed his sentiments—-for, after all, every man there wasa veteran submarine skipper him-self.

The interview with Wahoo’sskipper at an end, Lockwood askedthe question which Morton hadbeen waiting for: “Well, Mush,what do you want to do?”

Knowing his man, the admiralwas prepared for the answer hegot, but it must be admitted thathe would hardly have been sur-orised had Morton indicated thathe had been taking a beatinglately, and would like a rest.

A rest was farthest from MushMorton’s mind at that moment.“Admiral,” he said, “Iwant to goright back to the Sea of Japan,with a load of live fish this time!”

They shook hands. “We’ll getyou ready as soon as we can," saidLockwood.

Morton stood up gravely,thanked him shortly, and de-parted. As he watched thatstraight, tall figure stride out ofhis office the thought flashedacross the admiral’s mind: “Ishouldn’t let him go. I ought totake him off his ship and let himcool off a bit. But I just can’tdo it!”

Wahoo Disappears Forever.So Wahoo was given another

load of torpedoes, which were mostpainstakingly checked for perfectcondition, and immediately de-parted for the Japan Sea to re-deem her previous fiasco. Shestopped at Midway en route, butnothing more was ever heard orseen of her, and what informationwe have been able to gather, con-sisting of reports of losses whichcould only have been due to depre-dations made by Wahoo on herlast patrol, has come from Jap-anese sources.

According to these sources, fourships were sunk by Wahoo in theJapan Sea between September 29and October 9, 1943. Knowingthe Jap tendency to deflate rec-ords of losses, it is probable thatthe actual number of ships sunkwas eight or more, instead of four.

Wahoo never returned. Sur-prisingly, however, among the 468United States submarines whichthe Japs claimed to have sunk,there was not one record, or anyother information anywhere dis-covered which, by any stretch ofcircumstances, could explain whathad happened to her.

The enemy never got her. Theynever even knew she had beenlost, and we carefully concealedit for a long time, knowing howbadly they wanted to “get”Wahoo.

Like so many of our lost sub-marines, she simply disappearedinto the limbo of lost ships, seal-ing her mystery with her forever.

This has always been a com-forting thought, for it is a sailor’sdeath, and an honorable grave. Ilike to think of Wahoo carryingthe fight to the enemy, as shealways did, gloriously, successful-ly. and furiously, up to the lastcatastrophic instant when, bysome mischance, and in somemanner unknown to living man,the world came to an end for her.(Copyright, 1062. by Edward L. Beach.Published by Henry Holt & Co.. Inc. Dis-

tributed by the Register and TribuneSyndicate.)

(To be continued tomorrow.)

Car Thief QuizzedAs Suspect in Boy'sHis-and-Run Death

Police questioned a 20-year-oldconfessed car tnief today in the

hit-and-run death of Larry Dick-erson, 7, of 1406 U street S.E.

The suspect, who is colored, de-

nied hitting the boy yesterdayafternoon, but admitted stealing

a car shortly before the fatal ac-cident. Detectives questioning thesuspect said the lead "looks good.”

Described as a 1940 black sedanwith Florida license plates, thecar was towed to the police garageand examined forblood-stains anddamage to the front fenders orgrill-work.'

Struck With Force.Apparently struck with tre-

mendous force, the victim of thespeeding auto died soon after theaccident at Minnesota avenue andGood Hope road S.E.

Larry, the son as Alex Dicker-son, 42, and Mrs. LiHie Dickerson,37, was going to the 11th preoinctPolice Boys’ Club with his brotherDanny, 5. They had expected tomeet another brother Tommy, 12,and return home with him lordinner.

In his story of the tragedy.Danny said Larry had steppedout into Minnesota avenue to seeif any cars were coming. Appar-ently seeing none, he was return-ing to the curb to take the handof his younger brother when thecar suddenly turned left fromGood Hope road, struck Larry,and sped northeast on Minne-sota.

Brother Tells Mother.It was about 5:15 p.m. and the

street lights were on. Sobbing,Danny hurried home to tell hismother Larry had been hit. Mrs.Dickerson reached the scene be-fore an ambulance carried theboy to Gallinger Hospital, wherehe died at 5:45 p.m.

Police broadcast a descriptionof a car seen speeding from theintersection. They found onewitness, Eugene D. O’Connor, 5502Parkland street, Suitland, who hadstopped his car at the corner. Hesaid Larry fell in the street be-side his car door.

Larry’s father, a mechanic ata southeast garage, said he hadwarned the boys a week ago notto go across the dangerous streetalone. Mrs. Dickerson, preparing

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them to stay in the house, butthey wanted to meet Tommy.

Larry was a second grade stu-dent at Ketcham ElementarySchool. He also is survived byfour other brothers and sisters,Robert Dickerson, 22, with the AirForce at Alamagordo, N. M.; Mrs.Betty O’Brien, of the home ad-dress; Jackie, 16, and Jimmie, 15months.

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