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By *Charles Towne Landing's reproduction 17th century trading vessel, the Adventure, sank Monday *Even critics in Hampton, Va., are stunned by the rapid benefits the city is seeing from having done away last year with personal property taxes on boats *The push for St Simons Island and Sea Island independence continues Top 10 US Navy Submarine Aces in WW2. 1. Richard H. O'Kane. Born Dover, New Hampshire 2nd. of February 1911. Graduated US Naval Academy 1934. He served in the cruiser USS Chester, and the destroyer USS Pruitt, and then in 1938 trained as a Submariner. In 1942, Richard served in the submarine Wahoo as her executive Officer. As a Lieutenant Commander, he was Captain of the submarine USS Tang, and made five patrols in her. They were all made from his base at Pearl Harbor. Patrol 1. January 1944 for 44 days in the Marianas. Results, 5 ships sunk. Patrol 2. March 1944 for 61 days to the Palau area, and it was totally uneventful. Patrol 3. June 1944 for 36 days to the East China Sea. Results, 10 ships sunk, his best patrol. Patrol 4. August 1944 for 34 days, again to the East China Sea. Results, 2 ships sunk. Patrol 5. September 1944 , his submarine lost to an accident off China on 24th./25th. of October 1944. One of his torpedoes came back on a circular course to sink his boat Tang. Richard O'Kane became a Prisoner of War of the Japanese until the war ended. Results, 7 ships sunk before losing his submarine. Award of Medal of Honor. The top US Submarine Captain of WW2. Richard O'Kane was credited with sinking 31 ships to total 227,800 tons, the best result.
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