USS Sealion (SS-315)-- Part 9: An Audio Recording of the Attack

It was not customary for submarine crews to make audio recordings of attacks.  However, the crew of the Sealion  had obtained  behind by a CBS war correspondent who had debarked at Midway, and when ordered to battle stations after encountering the Japanese battle group, one sailor  positioned the microphone  by an intercom in the cunning tower.  

That recording, along with a similar one of an attack on a Japanese oiler during the Sealion's Fifth War Patrol were then preserved by the  Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory and are thought to be the only surviving  sound recordings of World War II submarine attacks.

The Sealion continued to patrol between Mainland China and Formosa for the next several days before returning to Guam.

--GreGen