Nice article on the toll our submarines are taking on Japanese shipping. While the article will always mention that loss of combat vessels to submarines, the loss of merchant shipping cannot be understated. Japan entered the war with a shortage of merchant shipping, and this year she will begin to feel the economic pinch as the shipping fleet will start to shrink.
For anyone interested in reading about the American submarine campaign in the Pacific, Clay Blair Jr.’s “Silent Victory” is a must read. I know I’ve plugged this book before, but it is THE reference work on this aspect of WW2.
In Captain Tameichi Hara’s post war memoir he told how he would bemoan the news of a destroyer being sunk by a submarine. He felt it was the mouse killing the cat.