To : CO SubRon 3A & ComSubPac
From : LtCdr Carlos Jimenez
CO USS Pintado (SS-387) Subject : Patrol report cycle: 13
SubRon 3
PZ: SJPAN .Sector: All
TDC: Automatic
Crew experience: Green
Number of Warships sunk: 0
Number of Merchants sunk: 31
Warships tonnage: 0
Merchant tonnage: 21378
Total tonnage: 21378
Total Janac tonnage: 10689
Date/Time Location Description Tonnage
Types of Merchants sunk:
1048 to 1147 16 FEB 1945 Pos:131-47E 31-42N 6 fishing boats 1200
1632 to 1708 17 FEB 1945 Pos:134-35E 33-20N 6 fishing boats 1200
2005 to 2214 18 FEB 1945 Pos:132-28E 32-20N 3 sampans 240
0759 to 0850 19 FEB 1945 Pos:131-45E 31-32N 7 sampans 560
0025 to 0144 20 FEB 1945 Pos:129-31E 31-32N 5 fishing boats 1000
2208 24 FEB 1945 Pos:129-32E 30-07N med modern comp fre 4484
2213 24 FEB 1945 Pos:129-32E 30-07N hog island type A 4273
0813 25 FEB 1945 Pos:129-04E 29-39N hog island type A 4273
2156 25 FEB 1945 Pos:128-42E 29-14N hog island type A 4148
Patrol Narrative:
Rmks 1-
Sailed Feb 10, 1945, from guam and went to SJ op-area
Rmks 2-
Had mixed weather all along during the patrol
Not many Air Contacts and not many surface contacts
Decided to engage and eliminate all that came around
Rmks 3.
Encountered 5 separate groups of small boats and had a surface action clearing the grops off the sean, for a total of 27 sampans and fishing boats, some small arms fire came our way. In this actions exausted all the ammo for the 20 MM guns and had only 19 rounds remaining for the main gun
Rmks 4.
From the 24 to the 26 encountered single surface ships, fired a total of 16 torps for kills on them, by this point fuel was down to 50% and crew showed signs of stress.
Rmks 5.
Trials on the aft tubes showed malfunctions to the caps, negating the possibility of the six aft tubes. Therefore with only two fwd torps and almost no ammo remaining returned to Guam.
Rmks 5.
5 March 1415
Ship finishing overhaul, will mount a 40 mm AA gun to deal with the multiple surface small ships encountered.
LtCdr Carlos Jimenez
CO USS Pintado
