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Wartime History On March 5, 1943, PT-143 and PT-150, discovered I-17 rescuing three lifeboats full of survivors from the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. The PT-Boats opened fire with their guns and torpedoes, causing the submarine to crash dive. The PT boats then sank the lifeboats with machine gun fire and depth charges. On March 3, 1943 at Milne Bay, during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea and departed under the command of Lt(jg) Russell E. Hamachek as part of the first group of PT Boats deployed to patrol the Bismarck Sea area. At 11:10pm PT-150 and PT-143 saw fires ahead to the north and spotted damaged Oigawa Maru dead in the water with a large fire in the forward hold and a small fire aft and appeared to be abandoned and both fired torpedoes to sink the ship with PT-150's torpedo hitting amidships and caused it to sink stern first while still burning. On March 5, 1943 at dawn PT-150 under the command of Lt(jg) Russell E. Hamachek with PT-143 spotted a Japanese submarine on the surface out to sea roughly 25 miles northeast of Cape Ward Hunt with three boats nearby, one with more than 100 Japanese soldiers and two smaller ones with about 20 soldiers in each who were survivors from the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. The PT Boats each fired a torpedo that missed and the submarine crash dived as the PT Boats strafed the conning tower then sank the three boats of survivors and dropped depth charges. On March 18, 1943 PT-150 and PT 192 fired at shore defenses and a storage tank at Linderhafen, and discovered the defenses were abandoned. On May 13, 1943 departs with PT-152 on a patrol off Lae. On May 14, 1943 in the early morning engaged a Japanese submarine, I-6 that escapes. On July 14, 1943, PT-150 rescued P-40K "Pistoff" 42-45979 pilot 1st Lt. Donald H. Lee, Jr. from Huon Gulf near Lasanga Island off Lake Salus. Fate On October 26, 1945 scuttled off Samar. References At Close Quarters PT Boats in the United States Navy (1962) pages 180-181 (March 4-5, 1943), 191-192, 235, 388, 459, 462 Contribute
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