U.S.S. FLYING FISH (SS-229) — war patrol report SS-229_FLYING_FISH_Part1.pdf

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1. USS FLYING FISH (55 229) is named for fishes of tropic and warm temperate seas, which have long wriglike fine and are capable of moving some distance through the air.

FLYING FISH was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire. Her keel was laid 6 December 1940 and she was launched 9 July 1941, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Husband E. Kimmel, wife of Rear Admiral Kimmel, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet.

FLYING FISH was commissioned on 10 December 1941, Lieutenant Commander Glynn R. Donaho, USN, in command. The first U. S. submarine commissioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; she completed training in the Newport-New London area on 6 April and put to sea from the latter port for the Pacific. She was three days out of Balboa on 20 April and making passage to Pearl Harbor when she sighted an army patrol plane and dived to escape a "mistakenly" dropped aerial bomb which exploded harmlessly at some distance in the sea. She surfaced after two hours to release an identification smoke float for benefit of the aircraft and reached Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1942 to commence final training.

FLYING FISH cleared Pearl Harbor on 17 May 1942 as one of the 25 Pacific Fleet submarines of Task Force SEVEN which was divided into three task groups for the defense of Midway Atoll. With eleven other submarines she formed the Midway Patrol Group (Task Group 7.1) which converged west of Midway on stations located like the points of an opening fan, screening that atoll from the expected onslaught of the Japanese Fleet. A second group of three submarines (7.2) were deployed on a scouting line east and a little north, between Midway and Cahu, while a third group of four submarines (Task Group 7.3) covered a position some 300 miles north of Cahu.

FLYING FISH took stationary patrol on a 3-10 mile front some 60 miles northwest of Midway on 21 May 1942 and was ordered on station patrol on the 100-mile circle from that atoll when the Historic Battle of Midway commenced on 4 June 1942. Ever ready to intercept the fleeing enemy fleet which never came her way she closed to patrol within twelve to 20 miles from Midway Lagoon 5-7 June, and came alongside the South Pier at Midway two days later for new patrol orders, emergency repairs, fuel and provisions. As such, she was the first submarine to refit at Midway.

The bastion of Hawaii, Midway was providing refit for two submarines at a time within six months, and could refit twelve simultaneously by the close of war. Supplied at Midway, FLYING FISH and other Pacific Fleet submarines could spend more patrol time in waters of the Japanese Empire.

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1. USS FLYING FISH (55 229) is named for fishes of tropic and warm temperate seas, which have long wriglike fine and are capable of moving some distance through the air.

FLYING FISH was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire. Her keel was laid 6 December 1940 and she was launched 9 July 1941, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Husband E. Kimmel, wife of Rear Admiral Kimmel, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet.

FLYING FISH was commissioned on 10 December 1941, Lieutenant Commander Glynn R. Donaho, USN, in command. The first U. S. submarine commissioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; she completed training in the Newport-New London area on 6 April and put to sea from the latter port for the Pacific. She was three days out of Balboa on 20 April and making passage to Pearl Harbor when she sighted an army patrol plane and dived to escape a "mistakenly" dropped aerial bomb which exploded harmlessly at some distance in the sea. She surfaced after two hours to release an identification smoke float for benefit of the aircraft and reached Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1942 to commence final training.

FLYING FISH cleared Pearl Harbor on 17 May 1942 as one of the 25 Pacific Fleet submarines of Task Force SEVEN which was divided into three task groups for the defense of Midway Atoll. With eleven other submarines she formed the Midway Patrol Group (Task Group 7.1) which converged west of Midway on stations located like the points of an opening fan, screening that atoll from the expected onslaught of the Japanese Fleet. A second group of three submarines (7.2) were deployed on a scouting line east and a little north, between Midway and Cahu, while a third group of four submarines (Task Group 7.3) covered a position some 300 miles north of Cahu.

FLYING FISH took stationary patrol on a 3-10 mile front some 60 miles northwest of Midway on 21 May 1942 and was ordered on station patrol on the 100-mile circle from that atoll when the Historic Battle of Midway commenced on 4 June 1942. Ever ready to intercept the fleeing enemy fleet which never came her way she closed to patrol within twelve to 20 miles from Midway Lagoon 5-7 June, and came alongside the South Pier at Midway two days later for new patrol orders, emergency repairs, fuel and provisions. As such, she was the first submarine to refit at Midway.

The bastion of Hawaii, Midway was providing refit for two submarines at a time within six months, and could refit twelve simultaneously by the close of war. Supplied at Midway, FLYING FISH and other Pacific Fleet submarines could spend more patrol time in waters of the Japanese Empire.

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1. USS FLYING FISH (55 229) is named for fishes of tropic and warm temperate seas, which have long wriglike fine and are capable of moving some distance through the air.

FLYING FISH was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire. Her keel was laid 6 December 1940 and she was launched 9 July 1941, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Husband E. Kimmel, wife of Rear Admiral Kimmel, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet.

FLYING FISH was commissioned on 10 December 1941, Lieutenant Commander Glynn R. Donaho, USN, in command. The first U. S. submarine commissioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; she completed training in the Newport-New London area on 6 April and put to sea from the latter port for the Pacific. She was three days out of Balboa on 20 April and making passage to Pearl Harbor when she sighted an army patrol plane and dived to escape a "mistakenly" dropped aerial bomb which exploded harmlessly at some distance in the sea. She surfaced after two hours to release an identification smoke float for benefit of the aircraft and reached Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1942 to commence final training.

FLYING FISH cleared Pearl Harbor on 17 May 1942 as one of the 25 Pacific Fleet submarines of Task Force SEVEN which was divided into three task groups for the defense of Midway Atoll. With eleven other submarines she formed the Midway Patrol Group (Task Group 7.1) which converged west of Midway on stations located like the points of an opening fan, screening that atoll from the expected onslaught of the Japanese Fleet. A second group of three submarines (7.2) were deployed on a scouting line east and a little north, between Midway and Cahu, while a third group of four submarines (Task Group 7.3) covered a position some 300 miles north of Cahu.

FLYING FISH took stationary patrol on a 3-10 mile front some 60 miles northwest of Midway on 21 May 1942 and was ordered on station patrol on the 100-mile circle from that atoll when the Historic Battle of Midway commenced on 4 June 1942. Ever ready to intercept the fleeing enemy fleet which never came her way she closed to patrol within twelve to 20 miles from Midway Lagoon 5-7 June, and came alongside the South Pier at Midway two days later for new patrol orders, emergency repairs, fuel and provisions. As such, she was the first submarine to refit at Midway.

The bastion of Hawaii, Midway was providing refit for two submarines at a time within six months, and could refit twelve simultaneously by the close of war. Supplied at Midway, FLYING FISH and other Pacific Fleet submarines could spend more patrol time in waters of the Japanese Empire.

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1. USS FLYING FISH (55 229) is named for fishes of tropic and warm temperate seas, which have long wriglike fine and are capable of moving some distance through the air.

FLYING FISH was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire. Her keel was laid 6 December 1940 and she was launched 9 July 1941, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Husband E. Kimmel, wife of Rear Admiral Kimmel, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet.

FLYING FISH was commissioned on 10 December 1941, Lieutenant Commander Glynn R. Donaho, USN, in command. The first U. S. submarine commissioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; she completed training in the Newport-New London area on 6 April and put to sea from the latter port for the Pacific. She was three days out of Balboa on 20 April and making passage to Pearl Harbor when she sighted an army patrol plane and dived to escape a "mistakenly" dropped aerial bomb which exploded harmlessly at some distance in the sea. She surfaced after two hours to release an identification smoke float for benefit of the aircraft and reached Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1942 to commence final training.

FLYING FISH cleared Pearl Harbor on 17 May 1942 as one of the 25 Pacific Fleet submarines of Task Force SEVEN which was divided into three task groups for the defense of Midway Atoll. With eleven other submarines she formed the Midway Patrol Group (Task Group 7.1) which converged west of Midway on stations located like the points of an opening fan, screening that atoll from the expected onslaught of the Japanese Fleet. A second group of three submarines (7.2) were deployed on a scouting line east and a little north, between Midway and Cahu, while a third group of four submarines (Task Group 7.3) covered a position some 300 miles north of Cahu.

FLYING FISH took stationary patrol on a 3-10 mile front some 60 miles northwest of Midway on 21 May 1942 and was ordered on station patrol on the 100-mile circle from that atoll when the Historic Battle of Midway commenced on 4 June 1942. Ever ready to intercept the fleeing enemy fleet which never came her way she closed to patrol within twelve to 20 miles from Midway Lagoon 5-7 June, and came alongside the South Pier at Midway two days later for new patrol orders, emergency repairs, fuel and provisions. As such, she was the first submarine to refit at Midway.

The bastion of Hawaii, Midway was providing refit for two submarines at a time within six months, and could refit twelve simultaneously by the close of war. Supplied at Midway, FLYING FISH and other Pacific Fleet submarines could spend more patrol time in waters of the Japanese Empire.