![]() ![]() Take a look at all 13 of the USS Drum's WWII war patrol reports. This is the eighth highest of all WWII submarine confirmed sinkings. Discrepancies between submarine crews and JANAC are common for all submarines throughout WWII. The crew claimed to sink 27 enemy vessels, but JANAC (Joint Army Navy Assessment Committee) officially credits the Drum with the sinking of 15 enemy vessels for a total of 80,580 tons. She earned 12 battle stars for her service in WWII. Every submariner onboard for each "successful" patrol earned his submarine combat insignia pin or else earned another star for their submarine combat insignia pin. The Drum made 13 war patrols in WWII, 9 of which were deemed "successful". Two Japanese prisoners were taken aboard - Chono Natsumori and Keiei Shimochi. While on her 10th war patrol the Drum sank a sampan in a battle surface attack. Details of the conning tower upgrade can be found in the prologue of her 9th war patrol. This makes the Drum very unique! She's a Gato-class submarine with a Balao-class conning tower. ![]() At Mare Island, she received a new, much stronger Balao-class ("thick hull") conning tower. Lockwood sent the USS Drum to Mare Island for an overhaul and a entirely new conning tower. However, on a test dive on January 1, 1944, the conning tower began to buckle. The Drum headed immediately for Pearl Harbor, where an attempt to fix the door was made by replacing the after bulkhead with a new one without the problematic aft door. The aft door frame upper hinge and adjacent plating in the conning tower (common on early Gato-classes) cracked and was letting in water at about two to three gallons per minute when submerged. On Novemwhile on her 8th war patrol, the Drum suffered a severe depth charge attack. USS Drum's radio call sign is NITG (November, India, Tango, Golf) as seen in the logo at the top of the screen. Walt Disney Studios designed many unique emblems for military units throughout the United States Armed Forces in WWII. The submarine's emblem of the octopus banging the drum was created by Walt Disney. Amazingly, 20 of the 52 lost submarines in WWII were of Gato-class. The 77 Gato-class submarines were the star workhorses of the Pacific war with Japan throughout WWII. The Drum was the first of the Gato-class submarines to be commissioned and enter WWII. USS Drum was commissioned on Novemwith Lieutenant Commander Robert H. The keel for USS Drum (SS-228) was laid down on Septemat Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. ![]()
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