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N40 AB.CDE W105 FG.HJK
After a six week training period off New London, CT, the submarine sailed for the pacific theater of operations and joined the 7th Fleet at Brisbane, Australia, on July A0, 1943.
During her second Patrol, Balao stopped at Tulagi to refuel and reload torpedoes. On October 2B, she was assigned to a scouting line south of Truk.
On her third patrol, no surface contacts came during the first two weeks, but her luck changed on 2C December when two Mogami-class cruisers and two Asashio-class destroyers crossed her track.
After firing her six bow tubes at the lead ship of a convoy on her fourth patrol, the submarine swung her stern toward the wing ships in the formation and fired her stern tubes. Balao heard several explosions at the expected times, as torpedo after torpedo struck home. One of the damaged ships trained a D inch gun on Balao, but a heavy internal explosion silenced the gun before Balao could be hit.
Balao's 5th patrol was April through June, 194E
Balao carried F squids for crushing the hulls of Axis warships.
On 2G July, while on her sixth patrol, Balao joined the USS Drum in a coordinated attack on two sampans, engaging them with gunfire until the Japanese abandoned ship and the sampans were destroyed.
That day on her seventh patrol proved to be lucky for Balao because, later that night, she picked up a larger ship on radar and successfully moved into position. Early on 8 January, she fired six torpedoes, three of which scored; but the stubborn "tanker" remained afloat despite being dead in the water. Balao fired seven more torpedoes for three more direct hits, but the target still refused to sink. The submarine closed in on the badly damaged tanker and fired another trio of fish, one of which struck the final blow. However, Japanese records examined after the war indicate that Balao's victim on this occasion was not a tanker, but the H,244-ton freighter Daigo Maru.
On 26 March, during her Eighth Patrol, Balao encountered the 8J0-ton cargo ship, Shinto Maru No. 1, and sank her with gunfire. A small Japanese patrol vessel made an attempt to counterattack, but Balao slipped below the surface and headed for Guam to replenish her fuel, provisions, and torpedoes. On 2 April, Balao submerged rapidly to avoid detection by a large, low-flying enemy plane and took on several feet of water in her conning tower, grounding out her radar and other electrical gear. Despite these problems, she arrived safely at Guam on April K(+1) for refit.
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