A Tale of Two Subs by Jonathan J. McCullough

An Untold Story of World War II, Two Sister Ships, and Extraordinary Heroism On November 19, 1943, the submarine USS Sculpin, under attack by the Japanese, slid below the waves for the last time in what would become one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. Naval history. Not only did several crew members survive the sinking - an extremely rare event in World War II submarine warfare - but several were aboard a Japanese aircraft carrier en route to a POW camp when it was, in turn, torpedoed and sunk by the Sculpin's sister ship, the USS Sailfish.At the end of World War II, several unlikely survivors would tell a tale of endurance against these amazing reversals of fortune. For one officer in particular, who knew that being captured could have meant losing the war for the Allies, his struggle was not in surviving but in sealing his own fate in a heartbreaking act of heroism that culminated in the nation's highest tribute, the Medal of Honor.Sculpin Lt. Commander John Phillip Cromwell w