
USS Trout arrives at Pearl
Harbor, March 1942
USS Trout (SS-202)
returns
to Pearl Harbor on 14 June 1942, after the Battle of Midway. She is
carrying two Japanese prisoners of war, Chief Radioman Hatsuichi
Yoshida and Fireman 3rd Class Kenichi Ishikawa, survivors of the
sunken cruiser Mikumawho
had been rescued on 9 June. Among those waiting on the pier are Rear
Admiral Robert H. English and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The
district ferry Nihoa (YFB-19)
is in the left background, just to the right of Trout's
jack. Two .30 caliber Lewis machineguns are mounted on Trout's
sail, flanking the periscope shears.
National Archives
Photo No. 80-G-32217
Department of the Navy - Naval History and Heritage Command
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