ABSTRACT
Vice Admiral. He led the only WW2 sinking of a battleship by an American submarine. He commanded the submarine USS Sealion II, and just after midnight on 21 November 1944 he scored three torpedo hits on the Kongo, one of the battleships involved in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He sank a Japanese destroyer in the same action. In the four-torpedo spread fired at Kongo, each weapon carried the name of one of the four crew members killed when the original Sealion was bombed and scuttled at Cavite in the Philippines in December 1941.
