USS Cisco

1. Her fate Sunk By USN PBY Plane and HMCS Oakville 8-27-42 · U-162 Sunk By HM S TM3 Cox LT S2 S2 EM1 TM3 MM1 SM2 LCDR RM3 StM2 GM2 F1 ENS TM2 MoMM1 SM1 TM2 F2 EM3 TM2 PhM2 CTM F1 GM1 F1 MoMM1 EM1 EM3 EM3 LCDR-XO MoMM2 StM1 TM2 SC3 MoMM1 QM1 U-2s, UFOs, and Operation Blue Book · U-94 Sunk By USN PBY Plane and HMCS Oakville 8-27-42 · U-162 Sunk By HM Ships Pathfinder, Vimy, and Quentin 9-3-42 · U-210 Sunk By HMCS Assiniboine 7-6-42 · U-352 Sunk By U.

Venturing out for her first war patrol, Cisco (Lieutenant Commander J. W. Coe), left Port Darwin, Australia on 18 September 1943. That evening she returned to Darwin due to a derangement of the main hydraulic system which had occurred during the day's operation. The hydraulic system having been repaired to the satisfaction of the Commanding Officer, Cisco once more departed on 19 September.

Cisco's area was a large rectangular one in the South China Sea between Luzon and the coast of French Indo-China. In order to reach it, she was to pass through the Arafoera Sea area, the Banda Sea, Manipa Strait, Molukka Passage, the Celebes Sea, Sibutu Passage, the Sulu Sea and Mindoro Strait. On 28 September, Cisco should have been due west of Mindanao in the center of the Sulu Sea. On that day a Japanese antisubmarine attack was made at 9°-47'N, 121°-44'E slightly north and east of Cisco's expected position. In reporting the attack the Japanese state, "Found a sub tailing oil. Bombing. Ships cooperated with us. The oil continued to gush out even on tenth of October." The attack would seem to have been made by planes in cooperation with ships. No submarine which returned from patrol reported having been attacked at this time and position.

Nothing has been seen of or heard fromCisco since her departure from Darwin, and on 4 and 5 November 1943, Headquarters Task Force Seventy-One was unable to make radio contact with her. At the time of her loss it was considered very unlikely that a recurrence of trouble with her main hydraulic system could explain her sinking, and the only other possible clue was the fact that a Japanese plane was reported over Darwin at twenty thousand feet on the morning of her second departure.

The attack listed above is thought to probably explain this loss. No enemy minefields are known to have been in her area, or enroute to it.

Coe had previously made three war patrols as Commanding Officer of S-39, and three as Commanding Officer of Skipjack. He was considered a most able and successful Submarine Officer.

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U.S.S. Cisco (SS-290) | Name Rate Name Rate | Abrams, Donald B. Anderson, Donald F. Anderson, John R. D. Argersinger, Edgar E. Baker, Walter M. Berry, Howard B. Besnot, Lucien R. Briggs, Frederick M. Bubp, Herbert K. Buck, John E., Sr. Buratte, Austin O. Cannon, Patrick J. Coe, J.W. Coe, William F. Cole, Lenard R. Corkery, Charles R. Diery, Rudolf M. Dohlus, William F., Jr. Drag

U.S.S. Cisco (SS-290) | Name Rate Name Rate | Abrams, Donald B. Anderson, Donald F. Anderson, John R. D. Argersinger, Edgar E. Baker, Walter M. Berry, Howard B. Besnot, Lucien R. Briggs, Frederick M. Bubp, Herbert K. Buck, John E., Sr. Buratte, Austin O. Cannon, Patrick J. Coe, J.W. Coe, William F. Cole, Lenard R. Corkery, Charles R. Diery, Rudolf M. Dohlus, William F., Jr. Drag

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