Joint Army–Navy Assessment Committee was a United States inter-service agency set up to analyze and assess Japanese naval and merchant marine shipping losses caused by U.S. and Allied forces during Wo
Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses by U.S. forces
PTO naval campaign
Richard O'Kane
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Richard Hetherington O'Kane was a United States Navy submarine commander in World War II, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for commanding USS Tang in the Pacific War against Japan to the most succes
Joint Army–Navy Assessment Committee
…as noted in the following table. Commanding Officer JANAC figures Wartime Estimates War Patrols Ships Sunk Tonnage Ships Sunk Tonnage Tonnage Ratio Richard H. O'Kane 5 24 93,824 31 227,800 0.41 Slade D. Cutter 4 19 71,729 21 142,300 0.51 Dudley W. Morton 6 (killed in action) 19 54,683 17 100,000 0.55 Eugene B. Fluckey…
Commander Richard O'Kane, c. 1946
O'Kane (left) speaks with his commanding officer, Dudley Morton, on the bridge of the Wahoo c. February 1943
O'Kane with airmen rescued off Truk Island in May 1944
O'Kane as just-released prisoner of war, September 24, 1945