DIVING TRUK LAGOON
450' (137m), 7,620-ton Passenger Freighter sailed the Japan to New York route via the Panama Canal in the 1930's, but was placed into Navy service in 1941. On February 14, 1942 she narrowly survived a torpedo attack by the submarine USS Swordfish. On August 17, 1943 she survived being strafed and bombed by nine B-24's, which killed her Commander. She was in Truk Lagoon with a convoy unloading cargo when, on February 17, 1944, she was attacked by five Curtis Helldiver dive bombers, and Four Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers, from USS Bunker Hill, ripping her and igniting her fuel oil. The smoldering hulk went down in a hurry.
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