USS Tullibee (SS-248) entered the submarine force in July 1943 and on her first three patrols sank three freighters and a transport ship while damaging another freighter, a tanker, and a transport, for a total of 16,500 tons of shipping sunk and 22,000 tons damaged. On her fourth patrol, after leaving Midway on March 14, 1944, she was lost with 79 submariners. According to lone survivor O.W. Kuykendall, Tullibee was on station on March 25, 1944, and the next day made radar contact with a convoy of a troopship, two freighters, two escort vessels, and a destroyer. After several surface runs on the transport in squally weather, she fired two bow torpedoes from 3,000 yards while still unable to see the target. A minute or two later a terrific concussion shook the boat, and Kuykendall, who had been on the bridge, found himself in the water. He believed one of Tullibee’s torpedoes had made a circular run and caused the explosion. After regaining consciousness, he heard men shouting in the water, and about 10 minutes after the blast everything was silent. On March 27 a Japanese escort vessel rescued him, and he learned that the transport they had fired at was sunk. During captivity he was questioned and beaten when he refused to talk, was taken on April 19 to Ofuna Naval Interrogation Camp until September 30, and then was forced to work in the copper mines at Ashio until his rescue on September 14, 1945.