Fenno, Frank Wesley, Jr., RADM

Deceased
 
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Final Rank
Rear Admiral Upper Half
Last Designator
00X-Unknown NOC/Designator
Last Designator Group
Rating/NEC Group Unknown
Primary Unit
1959-1960, Naval Base (NAVBASE) Guantanamo Bay
Service Years
1925 - 1962
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Home State
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Year of Birth
1902
 
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Contact Info
Home Town
Westminster, MA
Last Address
Kensington, MD
Date of Passing
Aug 16, 1973
 
Location of Interment
Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates
5 7033-P

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National Cemetery Administration (NCA)WWII Memorial National Registry
  1973, National Cemetery Administration (NCA)
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 Additional Information
Last Known Activity:

TBD ???

   
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Submarine war patrols:
USS Trout (SS-156) - 1st through 4th
USS Runner (SS-275) - 1st through 3rd
USS Pampanito (SS-383) - 4th

   
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Marshall Islands Operation (1944)/Sinking of the USS Trout (SS-202)
From Month/Year
February / 1944
To Month/Year
February / 1944

Description
USS Trout (SS-202) was a Tambor-class submarine of the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific from 1941 to 1944. She received 11 battle stars for World War II service and three Presidential Unit Citations, for her second, third, and fifth war patrols. Trout also delivered ammunition to the besieged American forces on Corregidor and brought out 20 tons of gold bars and silver pesos from the Philippine currency reserve to Pearl Harbor.

Trout is credited with sinking 23 enemy ships, giving her 87,000 tons sunk, and damaging 6 ships, for 75,000 tons. During her first ten war patrols she made 32 torpedo attacks, firing 85 torpedoes, including 34 hits, 5 confirmed premature detonations, 5 confirmed duds, and 25 suspected duds. She was also involved in six battle surface actions and was attacked with depth charges eight times.

She was reported overdue on 17 April 1944 and presumed lost on her eleventh war patrol.

On 8 February 1944, the submarine began her 11th and final war patrol. Trout topped off with fuel at Midway Island and, on 16 February, headed via a great circle route toward the East China Sea.

Japanese records examined after the war indicate that one of their convoys, Matsu No. 1, was attacked by a submarine on 29 February 1944 in the patrol area assigned to Trout. Carrying the 29th Infantry Division of the Kwantung Army from Manchuria to Guam, Matsu No. 1 consisted of four large transports escorted by three Yūgumo-class destroyers of Destroyer Division 31: Asashimo, Kishinami, and Okinami. The submarine badly damaged one large passenger-cargo ship and sank the 7,126-ton transport Sakito Maru, which was carrying the Japanese 18th Infantry Regiment.[11] Asashimo detected the submarine and dropped 19 depth charges. Oil and debris came to the surface and the destroyer dropped a final depth charge on that spot, at the position 22°40′N 131°45′ECoordinates: 22°40′N 131°45′E. The submarine was using Mk. XVIII electric torpedoes, and it was also possible that one of those had made a circular run and sunk the boat, as happened with Tang.

On 17 April 1944, Trout was declared presumed lost with all 81 hands, including Clark and his executive officer, Lt. Harry Eades Woodworth, both of whom had made all 11 war patrols.
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
January / 1942
To Month/Year
March / 1942
 
Last Updated:
Mar 21, 2023
   
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