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The Following assignments are effective at the beginning of Patrol Cycle 2,March, 1942.

The first two pictures below could have been taken in Manila the first week of December 1941.  When both the USS Holland and USS Canopus with 29 submarines were based there.  The pictures after that are of the boats no longer assigned to the commander listed or SubRon 8.

Commander Current Command Current Location
Lt Cdr Ray McNeice CO SS-184, USS Skipjack Fremantle, Aus
Lt Rick Swiegoda XO SS-199, USS Tautog Pearl Harbor, T.H.
Lt Rick Turk SS-207, USS Grampus Pearl Harbor, T.H
Lt Walter Lowman SS-192, USS Sailfish Fremantle, Aus
Lt Richard Jolitz SS-194, USS Seadragon Fremantle, Aus
Lt Briscoe SS-191, USS Sculpin Fremantle, Aus
Commander Prior Commands Notes
     
     

Photograph of USS Holland AS-3 moored at Buoy 19, San Diego harbor, California, in 1940,
 with eleven submarines alongside. Submarines are (from  left to right):

Salmon (SS-182)Seal (SS-183), Stingray (SS-186),  Perch (SS-176),
Pollack (SS-180)
, Cachalot (SS-170), Cuttlefish (SS-171), Skipjack (SS-184),
Sturgeon (SS-187),
Snapper (SS-185),
Sargo (SS-188)
 

USS Canopus AS-9 with her squadron of submarines.

 

Boats no longer assigned to CO or to SubRon 8

 

Lt Cdr McNeice CO
Lt Rick Swiegoda XO
Lt Rick Turk
Lt Walter Lowman
Lt Richard Jolitz
Lt Briscoe


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