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  in the PACIFIC  1941 - 1945


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Top Scoring U.S. Submarine Commanding Officers
by Number and Tonnage of Ships Sunk in WWII
U.S. Submarines at War in the Pacific 1941 - 1945

A record of the top twenty five scoring American submarine Skippers ranked by the total number and tonnage of enemy merchant and Man-o-War ships sunk during World War II. This table includes both the reported war patrol totals and the post-war Joint Army Navy Assessment Committee (JANAC) tallies.

 

 

Rank

    Captain

Ships / Tonnage

JANAC Totals

1 Richard O' Kane 31 / 227,800 24 / 93,824
2 Slade D. Cutter 21 / 142,300 19 / 72,000
3 Mush Morton 17 / 100,500 19 / 55,000
4 Eugene Fluckey 25 / 179,700 16.33 / 95,360
5 Samuel Dealey 20.5 / 82,500 16 / 54,002
6 Reuben T. Whitaker 18.5 / 111,500 14.5 / 60,846
7 Gordon W. Underwood 14 / 89,600 14 / 75,386
8 Royce L. Gross  13.5 / 80,500 14 / 65,735
9 Charles O. Triebel 13 / 83,300 14 / 58,837
10 John S. Coye Jr. 14 / 71,700 14 / 39,000
11 William B. Sieglaff 15 / 63,500 13 / 32,886
12 Thomas S. Baskett 13 / 50,700 12 / 27,273
13 Henry C. Brunton 11 / 82,600 11 / 54,564
14 Bafford E. Lewellen 11 / 38,200 11 / 23,685
15 Charles H. Andrews 11 / 71,500 10 / 57,243
16 Robert E. Dornin 13 / 96,500 10 / 54,595
17 Eric L. Barr Jr. 12 / 51,200 10 / 46,212
18 Ralph M. Metcalf 10 / 54,800 10 / 40,040
19 Raymond H. Bass 12 / 70,300 10 / 37,977
20 Malcolm E. Garrison 11 / 60,100 10 / 37,368
21 Thomas B. Klakring 11 / 76,900 10 / 33,122
22 John A. Moore 12.5 / 63,500 9.5 / 45,757
23 Glynn R. Donaho 14 / 71,400 9.5 / 29,870
24 Eli T. Reich 11 / 101,400 9 / 59,839
25 Walter T. Griffith 17 / 106,300 9 / 45,874

 

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  RESOURCE NOTES:
Product photo
United States Submarine Operations in World War II
By Theodore Roscoe
United States Naval Institute
George Banta Company Inc Copyright 1949
Product photo Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
By Clay Blair
J.B. Lippincott Company
Copyright 1975
Product photo Subs Against the Rising Sun:
U.S. Submarines in the Pacific

By Keith H. Milton
Yucca Free Press
Copyright 2000
Book Cover U. S. Submarines in World War II:
An Illustrated History of the Pacific

By Larry Kimmett & Margaret Regis
Navigator Publishing
Copyright 191996
 
   

 


 
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