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| | USS S-39 (SS-144) |
 | | USS S-39 reached the island on 27 February, well before the arranged rendezvous time, but after two days of waiting with no apparent activity, Lieutenant Coe decided to lead a shore party to search for the British group. |
 | | USS S-39's fifth war patrol, delayed twice by mechanical failures, and once by the necessity of hospitalizing her executive officer, who came down with pneumonia, requiring a replacement for the second in command, finally commenced upon departure from base on 10 August 1942. |
 | | Lieutenant Brown, the commanding officer of USS S-39, was later assigned to USS S-44 (SS-155), only to be lost in that boat when she was shelled and sunk by a Japanese destroyer during a surface gun action engagement. |
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