Book Posting 9

Richardson and his crew go into the Bungo Starit one last time after a few months and have a boring patrol, except listening to a Tokyo radio station, until the end of their patrol. They come upon a convoy that consisted of 3 tankers, 4 cruisers, and 3 destroyers. Lots of ships for one sub to handle, but they decide to attack the convoy even though Bungo Pete is in the convoy. So, in order to do the most damage in as little time as possible, Richardson has his crew get the .5 inch gun and the .50 caliber machine guns set up on the deck (this is also including torpedoes in the bow and aft rooms). When they get out of the fire-fight by diving, they have sunk 2 tankers, all of the cruisers, and 2 of the destroyers, not sinking Bungo Pete. After they return to Pearl Harbor, they find out from military intelligence that Bungo Pete had thought there were more than 1 submarine attacking them, which makes the entire crew of the Walrus laugh. Richardson was injured during the attack though and is reassigned to a tech team to find out why some of the torpedoes are defective and dont detonate or hit the target sometimes. His first mate takes command of the Walrus and gets assigned to Australia to attack bases in the islands in the southern Pacific.