Talk:USS Sterlet
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killing of survivors
[edit]It appears that this submarine was involved in the killing of survivors from a ship that it had torpedoed. The reference I have seen for this states:
A wolf pack of five subs (called Mac’s Mops, after Commander Barney McMahon) patrolled the sea between Japan and the Bonins and sank several troop transports. After the Sterlett sank a small transport off Iwo Jima, she surfaced in the midst of the survivors. Recalling it later, a crewman on the Sterlett explained, “What we did then a lot of people wouldn’t approve of, but when you hate, you hate real bad, you know. So we did what we thought we had to do.”
Symonds, Craig L.. World War II at Sea (p. 606). Oxford University Press.
The reference cited by Symonds is Blair in Silent Victory.
Are there other sources out there to support this? Inclusion in the article might give a fuller picture of the US submarine war in the Pacific.ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 19:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
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