“The Silent Service” — as the U.S. Navy’s submarine force was known during World War II — waged an unrestricted undersea campaign against Japan that proved decisive in cutting off the island nation’s supply lines. By war’s end, American submarines had sunk 1,113 ships totaling 4.6 million tons, at the cost of 52 boats and 3,505 men. This February 1946 All Hands Bulletin article reviewed the wartime achievements and character of the submarine service as the peacetime Navy took shape.
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