Eastern Connecticut news., 1946-08-17

After a short refit, the ANGLER again put to sea, intent on disrupt ing the enemy supply lines. After several weeks of fruitless searching, a despatch was received directing the ANGLER to proceed to Panay Island, one of the Philippine group, to conduct a special mission. Early one evening the ANGLER, on the surface, proceeded in to the beach and there loaded very strange cargo-fifty- eight men. women, and children for transportation to Australia. The passengers were very thankful for the respite from evading the furiously searching Japanese troops whom they had been evading for several years. An uneventful passage was made to Australia where the tired ship was put in shape for her third patrol.
 In early May of 1914, the ANG- LER departed Perth, West Aus tralia, for Soenda Strait where she was to conduct an offensive recon naiSance in conjunction with a bombing of Soerbja by other units of the fleet. Several days were spent patrohing in the shadow of the famous volcano, Krakato, but nothing was sighted. At last target appeared on the horizon-a medium transport accompanied by only one escort. The transport was immedi- ately accommodated with four of Uncle Sam's greeting cards. The escort, however, became a little in- cenSed at the loss of his one ship convoy, and proceeded to indoc- trinate the ANGLER via the depth charge routine. This patrol was cut short, however, by a wave of sickness, so, just twenty-seven days after setting forth, the ANGLER was again resting alongside the dock.
 Prior to leaving on the fourth pa- trol, It. Cmdr. Olsen was relieved by It. Comdr. F. c. HESS, USN, as commanding officer. The fourth patrol of the ANGLER was spent in the South China Sea in com pany with the U.S.S. FLASHER and U.S.S. CREVALLE. Alter searching diligently without much success, a convoy of ten large car go ships, and escort-carrier and numerous busy little escorts with gigantic depth charges was sighted and trailed. Late that night the FLASHER made the first attack, and it seemed as though half of the convoy went up in flames. De- moralized and in utter confusion, the few remaining ships started milling around, apparently in no hurry to leave the brilliant, protect ing light of the burning ships. The carrier, however, seemed eager to carry the news home to Hirohito, and was last seen, with a full head of steam, heading in the general direction of Tokyo.
 Now it was the ANGLERS turn to further decimate the enemy forces. Even though conditions were not satisfactory, it was fast becom- ing daylight and some decisive ac- tion had to be taken, so, in went the ANGLER, flaming out her tor pedoes on the way, sending another Maru to join honorable ancestors under waves. Before making good our getaway, one of the little horn- cts awoke and commenced whistling explosives in the direction of the ANGLER, forcing us to trade good fresh air for the depths below, but not before he felt the sting that a submarine carries in it's tail, four more torpedoes to discourage an already demoralized enemy. After the CREVALLE'S attack, only one ship of the original ten remained afloat, and it wasn't in the best of health. Several days later another convoy was sighted, but the ANGLER was unable to close to torpedo range, so no ships were sunk.
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