By October 1944, the USS Tang had racked up the best record of any US Navy submarine, sinking Japanese ships across the Pacific. But the Tang's run came to an end in clash with a Japanese convoy ...

The USS Tang was a Balao-class submarine designed to sink ships, and in her short career, that's precisely what she did. The Tang has an impressive war record, having sunk 33 enemy ships from the ...

The USS Tang sunk a total of 31 vessels, and earned O'Kane a level of prestige as a submarine commander few see in their lifetime. Because of his success with the USS Wahoo before the Tang, ...

USS Tang: The World War II Navy Submarine That Somehow Sank Itself. December 22, ... In yet another ironic twist of fate, that IJN frigate was also carrying survivors of Tang’s previous sinking.

The USS Tang has been credited with sinking 33 ships. Among the survivors, Commander O’Kane and his crew were taken to Japanese POW camps, where they remained until the war ended.

The USS Tang was sunk in 1944 when one of her own torpedoes malfunctioned and O’Kane was captured. He lost all but eight members of his crew. #9 Medal of Honor. Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons.

Her namesake, the USS Tang, was an aggressive submarine whose CO, Commander R.H. O'Kane, won three Navy Crosses and the Medal of Honor in leading her on five patrols, sinking 31 ships and damaging ...

Launched in 1943, the Tang is credited with sinking 31 ships totaling 227,800 tons and damaging two for 4,100 tons. On Oct. 24, 1944, the Tang fired on a Japanese convoy, striking a tanker and ...

Included were Carl Bryson, Carol N. Pierce and Gerald McLees, three of the five living survivors of the submarine USS Squalus, which sank in 1939.

The USS Tang was a Balao-class submarine designed to sink ships, and in her short career, that's precisely what she did. The Tang has an impressive war record, having sunk 33 enemy ships from the ...