USS Bullhead (SS-332), a Balao-class submarine, was the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II, probably on the same day that an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bullhead.
USS Bullhead
USS Bullhead Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, dedicated 7 April 1979
USS Bullhead memorial at the Western Australian Maritime Museum
Fremantle submarine base was the utilisation of Fremantle Harbour as a submarine base in World War II. The submarine base was second only to Pearl Harbor in the Pacific theatre, with US, British and Dutch submarines operating from Fremantle during the war. US submarines operating from Fremantle accounted for approximately one quarter of all US submarine patrols in the Pacific.
The submarine tender USS Holland with five American submarines at Fremantle in 1942
Samuel David Dealey (left), commander of the USS Harder (SS-257), a boat successful in six patrols until sunk by the Japanese with all hands lost in August 1944
Commemorative plaque for HMS Porpoise and Operation Rimau in Rockingham, Western Australia
Victoria Quay slipways, with HMAS Ovens