Chronology of World War II
Monday, May 1
Posing wth Rescued Aircrewmen
USS
Tang
(SS-306). The submarine’s Commanding Officer, Lt-Cmdr Richard H. O'Kane (center), poses with the twenty-two aircrewmen that
Tang
rescued off Truk during the carrier air raids there on April 29-May 1, 1944. The photograph was taken upon
Tang’s
return to Pearl Harbor from her second war patrol, in May 1944.