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Patrol Reports

FTB1(SS) David Ray Bowman

Podcast stories from the US Navy Submarine Force - 1900 to today Brought to you by the Bremerton Base of United States Submarine Veterans, Inc

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00:05:34

Sea Devil vs Hawaii Maru

Patrol Reports ·

2025/12/02

There are stories from the Pacific War that settle into the mind with a kind of heavy clarity. They do not shout. They do not demand. They simply sit there and remind us that the ocean has a long memory. Today we are stepping into one of those stories, the night when USS Sea Devil went hunting in the East China Sea and crossed paths with a former passenger liner that had become something far more tragic.Hawaii Maru began her life carrying travelers who dressed for dinner. By the winter of 1944 she

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00:04:12

Bonefish Strikes

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2025/11/29

The story of USS Bonefish on November 29, 1943, is the kind of moment that captures the strange rhythm of submarine warfare. Long stretches of waiting and watching suddenly turn into a burst of violence that decides everything in a few minutes. Bonefish had been working her way through the Flores Sea when a thin smear of smoke on the horizon pulled the crew straight into the hunt. What followed was a disciplined stalk, a clean attack, and a hard escape under the weight of depth charges.This

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00:04:26

We Sank Their Battleship

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2025/11/21

On this episode of Patrol Reports we return to one of the most remarkable moments in the entire Pacific submarine campaign. The date is November twenty first 1944. The place is the dark and storm driven waters of the Formosa Strait. The submarine USS Sealion is running on the surface through wind, rain, and near zero visibility while trying to track a Japanese formation that includes three battleships. Her skipper, Lieutenant Commander Eli Reich, carries the memory of the first Sealion that was lost

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00:04:32

Subs Going Bump In The NIght

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2025/11/15

The Barents Sea was gray and angry on November 15, 1969. Beneath those frigid waves, two nuclear submarines—one American, one Soviet—found themselves in a dance of shadows that neither captain intended to finish with a crash. The USS Gato, an American attack submarine built for silent hunting, and the Soviet K-19, a ballistic missile boat already infamous among sailors as “the Widowmaker,” collided 200 feet below the surface. No lives were lost, no missiles fired, but for a few long seconds, the

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00:13:58

Not the Caine

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2025/11/11

In the film The Caine Mutiny, we are told that there has never been a mutiny aboard a United States Navy ship. That is true, at least by the letter of the law. But there have been moments that tested the courage, discipline, and endurance of those who serve beneath the waves.This is the story of one such moment. In November 1943, deep in the Makassar Strait, the crew of the submarine USS Billfish found themselves fighting not only the enemy above but fear within. Their commanding officer lost his

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00:05:56

Eyes on the Skies

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2025/11/06

In the years after World War II, the U.S. Navy faced a new kind of threat. The kamikazes were gone, but the sky itself had become the enemy. Long before satellites and airborne warning planes, the Navy turned to an unlikely solution. It pulled its old fleet submarines out of mothballs and refitted them with radar, turning hunters of the deep into sentinels of the sky.These were the radar picket submarines, known by the mysterious designation SSR. They formed a short but fascinating chapter in Cold

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00:05:55

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Will Rogers SSBN-659

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2025/11/04

Today on Patrol Reports, we surface the story of the USS Will Rogers, the last of the “41 for Freedom.” She was a silent sentinel of the Cold War, built to carry peace through the threat of unimaginable power. From her first patrol in 1967 to her final days in the early 1990s, the Will Rogers stood watch in the deep, unseen but never idle.Her namesake, the American humorist and philosopher Will Rogers, once said he never met a man he didn’t like. It was a fitting name for a boat that carried the

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00:05:55

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Daniel Boone SSBN-629

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2025/11/02

The USS Daniel Boone took her name from one of America’s most enduring legends, the frontiersman Daniel Boone. Born on November 2, 1734, in Pennsylvania, Boone became a symbol of courage, exploration, and rugged independence. He blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap, opening the way for settlers into Kentucky, and his adventures in the American frontier made him a folk hero even in his own lifetime. Boone fought in the French and Indian War and later in the Revolutionary War,

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00:05:48

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS James K. Polk SSBN-645

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2025/11/02

In this episode of Patrol Reports, we surface the story of the USS James K. Polk—a submarine that lived two very different lives beneath the waves. Commissioned in 1966 at the height of the Cold War, Polk carried the nation’s most powerful weapons on sixty-six deterrent patrols, vanishing for months at a time to keep the peace through silent vigilance. When the Cold War ended, she was reborn, trading missiles for Dry Deck Shelters and special operations missions as an attack submarine. From nuclear

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00:04:45

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS John Adams SSBN-620

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2025/10/30

In the dark depths of the Cold War, one submarine carried the name of a Founding Father who believed peace could be preserved only through strength. USS John Adams, SSBN-620, was a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine built to ensure that no enemy would dare start a war it could not finish. From her launch in 1963 to her recycling in 1996, she patrolled the oceans unseen, part of the silent shield that kept the balance of deterrence intact.This episode tells her story, from her keel laying at

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00:05:46

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Theodore Roosevelt SSBN-600

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2025/10/27

Welcome to Dave Does History, where we surface the forgotten stories beneath the waves. Today, we turn our periscope toward the USS Theodore Roosevelt, SSBN-600, a submarine that carried the name of a president who believed in speaking softly and carrying a big stick. Launched in 1959 at Mare Island, she embodied the dawn of a new kind of strength, one that stayed hidden under the sea but kept the peace through quiet vigilance. For two decades, her crews sailed in silence, guardians of the Cold

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00:05:54

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS George Bancroft SSBN-643

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2025/10/03

George Bancroft was one of the great figures of nineteenth-century America, a historian, diplomat, and the founder of the United States Naval Academy. More than a century later, the Navy honored him by giving his name to a vessel that represented the cutting edge of Cold War deterrence. USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643) was a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine, part of the legendary “41 for Freedom.” From 1966 until 1993 she carried out seventy deterrent patrols, armed first with

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00:06:33

The Sorcerer Strikes

Patrol Reports ·

2025/10/02

In the autumn of 1944, the submarine USS Aspro slipped out of Fremantle and into the vast expanse of the South China Sea. This was her fifth war patrol, a mission that would test the nerves of her crew and the steel of the boat against Japan’s desperate efforts to keep its sea lanes open.For weeks the men endured the grind of patrol life, stalking convoys, dodging aircraft, and bracing against the thundering shocks of depth charges. The climax came on October 2, 1944, when Aspro closed in on a

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00:07:45

Jack's Silver Star Moment

Patrol Reports ·

2025/09/28

On June 26, 1943, the submarine USS Jack prowled the waters off Japan on her first war patrol. She was young, aggressive, and her crew carried a dangerous confidence. That morning, Jack struck hard, firing a spread of torpedoes into a convoy and sending two ships to the bottom. The crew was elated, convinced they had the war figured out.But in the shadow of victory came disaster. A Japanese bomber swooped down and dropped a depth charge so close it blew Jack’s stern clear out of the water, wrecked

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00:05:24

From Harbor Tragedy to a Resilient Legacy: The USS...

Patrol Reports ·

2025/09/26

In September of 1921, San Pedro Harbor was the bustling new home of the Pacific Fleet. Battleships filled the anchorage, destroyers patrolled the coast, and tied to the tender USS Camden was the small submarine USS R-6. She was a product of the pigboat era, a generation of submarines built during World War I that were experimental, cramped, and dangerous. On the night of September 26, her crew worked late into the evening preparing exercise torpedoes for the next day’s practice. What began as

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00:05:36

Mrs. Hutchinson's Son - USS Sargo's (SS-188) Fifth...

Patrol Reports ·

2025/09/25

In September of 1942 the submarine USS Sargo left Fremantle on her fifth war patrol, a mission that would take her deep into enemy waters of the South China Sea. For nearly a month she stalked empty horizons, her crew wrestling with leaking exhaust valves and the constant threat of discovery. Then came September 25, when Sargo fired at a Japanese freighter and nearly paid with her own life when one torpedo turned in a deadly circle. The target was finished with gunfire, but the victory was followed

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00:05:54

41 Cold War Sentinels - USS John Marshall SSBN-611

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2025/09/24

The USS John Marshall was never meant to be famous. She did not fight great battles or fire weapons in anger. Yet her legacy is important. She shows how the Navy adapted in the Cold War, repurposing old ships for new missions, keeping pressure on adversaries, and supporting allies in ways that never made the papers. She carried the name of a man who defined the rule of law, and she embodied the paradox of nuclear weapons: built for destruction, but used to keep the peace.

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00:05:38

41 Cold War Sentinels: USS Henry L. Stimson SSBN-655

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2025/09/21

The Cold War was fought in silence as much as in speeches. Deep beneath the Atlantic, submarines carried weapons that no one ever wanted to fire, and crews who lived in a world without sunlight to make sure those weapons remained ready. The USS Henry L. Stimson, SSBN 655, was one of those boats. She was part of the 41 for Freedom, the fleet of American missile submarines that kept the balance of power by disappearing. Her life tells us about the sailors who endured months underwater, the technology

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00:05:26

The Last Act of the USS O-9 Submarine Tragedy

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2025/09/21

On September 20, 1941, the Navy confirmed what many had feared since that summer. The wreck of the USS O-9 had been found, lying deep off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Three months earlier, on June 20, the old submarine had slipped beneath the waves during a routine test dive and never returned. Thirty-three men went with her, lost in an instant when the Atlantic crushed her beyond her limits.For weeks, the Navy searched, divers risking their lives, families waiting for word, and oil

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00:05:48

How America’s First Submarines Launched the Silent...

Patrol Reports ·

2025/09/19

On September 19, 1903, the United States Navy brought a strange little boat into service. She was called USS Plunger, Submarine Torpedo Boat Number Two. At just over sixty feet long, with a gasoline engine that filled her hull with fumes and a single torpedo tube that may or may not have worked as advertised, she hardly looked like the future of naval power. But that is exactly what she became.Plunger never sank an enemy ship, never fought in a war, and yet she changed everything. She carried a

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