Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum

This guide to the USS Bowfin at the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum in Honolulu opens on a torpedo strike in the dark hours of August 22, 1944, when the submarine's crew logged a routine kill against what looked like an ordinary Japanese transport. It traces who was really aboard that ship, and how Japan's wartime censors handled the story afterward. Along the way you'll walk the same deck where Bowfin's own nine war patrols began, and stand before a memorial to the American submarine crews lost in the same war.