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The first USS Batfish (SS/AGSS-310) is a Balao-class submarine, known primarily for the remarkable feat of sinking three Imperial Japanese Navy submarines in a 76-hour period, in February 1945. USS Batfish is the first vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the batfish, a type of anglerfish that crawls about on the sea floor.
Batfish served during World War II. Her war operations spanned a period from 11 December 1943 to 26 August 1945, during which she completed seven war patrols. She is credited with having sunk nine Japanese ships totaling 10,658 tons while operating east of Japan and in the Philippine Sea, Luzon Strait, and South China Sea. Batfish received the Presidential Unit Citation for her sixth war patrol during which she sank three Japanese submarines in the South China Sea in four days.
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Ive driven by the Batfish on display in Muskogee. I had no idea about its history. Now I want to go visit it
I love the batfish such an awesome boat†I just love submarines.
Such an incredible history of the boat thank you again
I remember reading a book about one of the members of this boat writing about the boat it was quite incredible and I can't remember the name of the book
I actually had a batfish. It was caught in a net and died. I had it in formaldehyde for many years but it leaked and unfortunately I had to get rid of it. It uses its fins like legs to walk on the sea floor and is an ambush predator. Sorta looks like an oyster cracker with legs. Neat fish!
I love how our American friends name their subs after sea creatures. đâïžđ #OurHistory
Yamato had 18" guns. Not 16 inch.
Genuinely been waiting for this vid to drop. Strange I always thought batfish held the record for most enemy submarines sunk in the world a record that would still stand today.
You dont by chance know where to get cool u boat models I can put in my office do you?
The batfish floated again a couple years ago when the nearby river flooded. They need donations to fix it
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6:30 That first skipper might have been right about the IJN Yamato's fire control and accuracy…
During the battle of Samar the Yamato hit every American ship that was sunk, and maybe two more that didn't….
USS Johnston, a destroyer and at full speed under heavy sea, and Yamato with it's 18.1" hit her …
I believe a sub is quite slower and less maneuverable, but even if it was as good… Yamato also hit USS Samuel B. Roberts, a smaller escort destroyer.
Even I would have taken the shot he he, but considering the men under his command and the sub… that skipper was right to be cautious
There is only one known Sub on Sub depth kill and that is HMS Venturer V U864 in Feb 1945 off Bergen ,Norway though a US Sub claimed sinking at depth IJN I 61 in Oct 1944 off Japan this is officially UNCONFIRMED.
The wildest sub story i have ever heard.Boy,those guys knew their math.Thanks HIDDEN HISTORY.
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I have been on board of the Batfish several times at her resting place in Muskogee. So much smaller than you would think.
Balao Class; pronounced BA-LAY-O
"Batfish's war operations span a period from 11 December 1943 to 26 August 1945 during which she completed six war patrols. She is credited with having sunk nine Japanese ships totaling 10,658 tons while operating east of Japan, in the Philippine Sea, Luzon Strait, and South China Sea. Combatant vessels sunk were: the destroyer Samidare, 26 August 1944 in 08°30' N., 134°37' E. and the submarines RO-55, 10 February 1945 in 18°56' N., 121°34' E.; RO-112, 11 February 1945 in 18°53' N., 121°50' E.; and RO-113, 13 February 1945 in 19°10' N., 121°25' E. "
This video identifies the first sub as possibly the I-41 and Batfishs' DANFS record seen above say RO-55 both Japanese records for both submarines credit American Destroyers and Heghog attacks for both sinkings. These records do confirm Batfish sinking the last two subs. Haven't located, yet, what other Japanese sub may have been sunk by Batfish.
WERE YOU ALOUD TO DRINK,ON U.S.-W.W.2 -SHIPS,-LIKE ON BRITISH SHIPS ??–WE HAD "2 CANS PER DAY-PERHAPS"-!!
Americans desperately trying to sink their own with friendly fire. Again.
Towards the end of this outstanding video, at approximately ( 23:48 ), the narrator states: ââŠcollectively American submarines accounted for the sinking of âtwenty-five enemy vesselsââŠ.â
Iâm pretty sure he meant to say twenty-five enemy âsubmarines.âBecause collectively, the U.S. Navy submarine force alone sunk many, many more than twenty-five Japanese âvessels,âbutâŠ, would have included into a vastly larger total, the aforementioned twenty-five submarines, over the course of World War Two.
Iâm certainty not claiming to be perfect with my recollection of facts, but I do recall from various academic sources it was something a bit over 1300 Japanese ships, both merchant and naval, for an approximate total of just under 4.5 million total tons sunk by USN submarines between 1942 and 1945.
Itâs just a minor point, but I thought Iâd mention it.
Again, this was such an excellent video, itâs good to see this well-deserved recognition go out on YouTube for the U.S.S. Batfish, her captain and crew, for an incredibly long and successful career of war and peacetime accomplishmentsâŠ.
P.S. There is another fine WW2 American museum submarine open to the public for an âon your ownâ walk-through at the excellent Submarine Museum located at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii.
I canât recall the class or name of the particular sub open to the public there, but if youâre ever able to vacation on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii, itâs something, including the museum itself, not to be missedâŠ.
How was Batfish transported overland to oklahoma? Amazing
This was informative and honored the accomplishments of the boat and the men who sailed her. I read about the process that landed her, in all of the gin joints in all the world, in Muskogee, OK. I suppose itâs better than being scuttled, but barely.
The USS Tang (SS-306) a Balao class submarine reached approx 700ft in an evasion off Saipan after a successful attack. An earlier attack had damaged one of the submarineâs torpedo tube inner gaskets causing it to leak. The added weight and the slow speed of the evasion caused the sub to continue to sink. The Tang eventually worked it out and surfaced.
IJN I-class(es) submarines were large boats. RO ckass(es) submarines were smaller boats.
You inferred she had 16''guns, if you check you will find she had 18''guns, Yamato and her sister are the only ships to have those.
The Silent Service did good job on telling the USS BATFISH story.
Took the kids there once. It is open March 15 to September 15 last time I checked.
I visited her, walking completely through her when she was docked in New Orleans. I forget the year, but it was the latter years of the 1960s. She was a dirty, smelly boat.
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I went aboard the Batfish in 1968 when she was at the Navel Station in New Orleans on the Mississippi River. Cub Scout tour.
Cant trust this bloke he is FULL OF đ© IVE HAD TO REPORT HIS VIDEOS IN THE PAST CAUSE HE IS SO MISSINFORMED. There was 1 video he done where the british were to land on juno beach, that was a AMERICAN LANDING BEACHâŠ.
He dosnt even know the Yamato had the BIGGEST main guns at 18â
NOT 16â DONT WATCH THIS TWIT YOU WILL BE BETTER INFORMED GOING TO ASK YOUR HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER FOR THEIR MAINSTREAM BASTARDISED VERSION OF THE WARS