Silent Service Maps
Interactive charts of American submarine war patrols in the Pacific, 1941–45 — every sinking at its logged position, with the ship, the attack, and the record behind it. Built to sit beside the books.
USS Barb (SS-220)
Seven Pacific patrols under Waterman and Fluckey: the Kurils, Convoy College, Namkwan Harbor, and the train raid on Karafuto.
Interactive mapUSS Wahoo (SS-238)
Seven patrols, 1942–43: Morton’s Wewak raid, the Buyo Maru convoy, the first patrol into the Yellow Sea, and her loss in La Pérouse Strait.
Interactive mapUSS Tang (SS-306)
Five patrols in 1944 under O’Kane, Morton’s old XO: the Truk aviator rescues, the Yellow Sea, and the Formosa Strait battles that ended with her own torpedo.
Interactive mapWho taught whom
Three mentor-to-skipper lineages — Wahoo, Pompano, Silversides — and where Barb’s Fluckey fits.
ReferenceSources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (NHHC), uboat.net, JANAC, and the first-hand patrol accounts. Ship photographs from Wikimedia Commons, public domain; stand-ins are labeled as such. Coastlines: Natural Earth.