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Kete (SS-369)

Radio Call Sign: November - Juliet - Uniform - Romeo

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Click On Image For Full Size	Size	Image Description		Source
	252k	Insignia of the Kete (SS-369) designed for the submarine by Ray Young, circa 1944.		Photo by Ray Young, courtesy of his son, William Young.
	37k	A Chaetodon capistratus, the four eye butterfly fish which spawned the Kete (SS-369).		Photo by Robert A. Patzner, University of Salzburg - Institute of Zoology, courtesy of fishbase.org. & inspired by Sebastian Pusateri.
	15k	Commemorative postal cover marking the keel laying of the Kete (SS-369), 25 October 1943.		Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
	563k	Kete (SS-369) launching at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 9 April 1944. Shown: Ship's Sponsor Mrs. Catherine Bernice Hutchinson with launching party.		USN photo # 80-G-409525 courtesy of National Museum of the U.S. Navy.
	356k	Sponsor Mrs. Catherine Bernice Hutchinson strikes the Kete (SS-369) across the bow.		USN photo # 80-G-409524 courtesy of National Museum of the U.S. Navy.
	60k	Portside view of the open outer torpedo door shutters of the Kete (SS-369), taken on the building ways shortly before being launched at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI., 9 April 1944.		Editors Note: There are over 200 images submitted on these pages covering the following submarines that were constructed at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co, Manitowoc, WI,: SS-265 through SS-274, and SS-361 through SS-380. None of them would have seen the light of day if it were not for the efforts of Curator, Asst. Director, Bill Thiesen and Larry Bohn who sent them to NavSource for publication. A special debt of gratitude is owed to these two men and the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, home of the Cobia (SS-245), for allowing these photographs to be seen by the lovers of naval history worldwide.
	563k	Kete (SS-369) launching at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 9 April 1944.		USN photo # 80-G-409526 courtesy of National Museum of the U.S. Navy.
	55k	Watercolor print by the artist Tom Denton of the side launching of a Manitowoc built boat.		Courtesy of submarineart.com
0836922	637k	Crowd beginning to depart after the launching of Kete (SS-369) at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company on 9 April 1944. Several people standing on pilothouse in shipyard in foreground. The pressure hull of another submarine under construction is visible in the background.		This photo # P-70-7-471, can be ordered (without the watermark) from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
0836921	638k	Crowd standing on shore to watch the commissioning ceremony of the Kete (SS-369) at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company on 31 July 1944.		This photo # P70-7-462, can be ordered (without the watermark) from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
0836910	233k	Chief Petty Officer and boy on deck on the Manitowoc built submarine Kete (SS-369) after commissioning ceremony at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company on 31 July 1944.		Text i.d. via John Hummel. This photo # P70-7-465, can be ordered (without the watermark) from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
0836919	518k	Commissioning crew of the Manitowoc built submarine Kete (SS-369) posed for photo at commissioning party circa July 1944.		Photo by Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. This photo # P84751, can be ordered from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
	60k	Commissioning emblem of the Kete (SS-369), 31 July 1944.		Photo by Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. Submitted by Larry Bohn, courtesy of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, home of the Cobia (SS-245)
	135k	The Kete's (SS-369) plankowners pose in this August 1944 photo. The skipper, Commander Royal Rutter is shown at the right in the first row of officers seated, to his left is Lt. R.H. Spikes, (K.I.A.), then Engineering Officer & the executive officer on the second and last patrol. The contributor of this & the next two photos, Dallas Dolan, is in the back top row on the right next to Bob Rosacker in Whites.		Courtesy of Dallas Dolan, MoMM2, plankowner / commissioning crew.
	88k	The Kete's (SS-369) plankowners pose in this August 1944 photo. The XO, Lt. Cdr. Edward Ackerman,(K.I.A.) is at the left of the picture in the first row seated. (Actually seated next to the Skipper). They left Saipan to finish the first patrol and refitted in Guam. There Commander Royal Rutter fleeted up to Captain and gave over command to Lt. Cdr. Ackerman for the second and last patrol. Directly behind the XO is Chief Electrician J.D. Ellis. Captain Rutter offered him Warrant and the Electrical shop in the new Submarine Base being formed at Guam.		Courtesy of Dallas Dolan, MoMM2, plankowner / commissioning crew.
	27k	Dallas Dolan, MoMM2, one of the plankowners on the Kete (SS-369), at age 23, August 1944. He is responding here to two questions that I asked him: "So what is you opinion as to what happened to the boat and what was your initial reaction when you found out the boat was overdue?" It is a long story. Hard to answer. I was very angry! There were five men transfered at Saipan from the Kete to the Fulton (AS-11) (To Ship's Company) Clear out of Submarines! I was one of them! We were all from the engineering dept. That might tell you something? The Skipper, Commander Royal Rutter, was in Pearl at that time and the orders were cut by the XO and the Engineering officer. Skipper was very upset when he returned. "you can't fire a volunteer!, we need these men to serve on submarines! We were told there was a file placed in our records by the skipper's orders indicating that we could re-volunteer in three months and return to the Boats. I then had 5 patrol runs and 3-1/2 years in enemy waters and was qualified! In the months following was when we heard of the loss of the Kete. Of course I was very sad to loose all those shipmates, many who I knew only a short time. Also I was able to count my blessings and my anger was mollified by my good fortune. I never returned to submarines. We thought that it could be mines. By then the Japanese Navy was moored at home and we felt they were casting mines loose to go in harms way. I was on the Kete underway to East China Sea for patrol, standing watch in after engine room. All of a sudden the engines go to idle. Moments later I could feel the boat rocking in the swell. No word was passed? What is going on? All of a sudden the concussion of the 20MM gun over the main induction valve is pounding on my head and shoulders as I stand under the Engine induction valve. Still no word? We were laying to in enemy waters! I called froward on the phone to the mess hall and they tell me, "Oh, they discovered a mine and are trying to blow it up!" Still no word? On any other sub or action we would have the OOD or the skipper on the 1MC informing the crew. This was the order of the day. It was not a happy ship! We were a new crew on a new boat on her first patrol with only 1/3 of us qualified and experienced. The experienced men were transfered. God rest their souls this day.		Courtesy of Dallas Dolan, MoMM2, plankowner / commissioning crew.
	221k	With the reflections of part of the crew mirrored in the waters of the Manitowoc River, the Kete's (SS-369) plankowners pose in this August 1944 photo. In a little over 8 months time from this photo, they would be looking up from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean as the Kete and most of the men pictured here would be listed as overdue. Eventually they would all be M.I.A.		Photo courtesy of Garry Buzard.
	66k	Kete (SS-369), underway on Lake Michigan 15 August 1944.		USN photo.
	231k	Kete (SS-369), underway on Lake Michigan, 15 August 1944.		Submitted by Larry Bohn, courtesy of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, home of the Cobia (SS-245)
0836920	1.30k	Stern view of the Kete (SS-369) underway on Lake Michigan, August 1944.		This photo # P70-7-479, can be ordered (without the watermark) from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
0836924	294k	Kete (SS-369) photographed circa 1944, probably at the time of her completion.		Photo by Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. Photo NH-98278 courtesy of history.navy.mil
	821k	Kete (SS-369), underway on Lake Michigan, August 1944.		Photo by Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. USNHC photograph # NH 72314.
	3.20k	Closeup view of Kete's (SS-369) superstructure, with lookouts at their stations and other men on deck, during trials in Lake Michigan, August 1944.		Photo by Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. USNHC photograph # NH 72313.
	485k	Photo of Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. The photo of the Golet (SS-361) encased in snow appears on the wall above him on the upper right. His obituary appears here.		Photo courtesy of Susan Menk, Archives Assistant, Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Dee Anna Grimsrud,Reference Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Steve Khail, CBC, Director of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, The Manitowoc Company, Inc. & William Young.
0836923	258k	10 March 1945: N of Amami O-Shima. At 0445, LtCdr Edward Ackerman's Kete (SS-369) torpedoes and sinks Sanka Maru at 29-25N, 128-15E. 51 crewmen and 605 troops are KIA. At 0705, Ackerman torpedoes and sinks Dokan Maru at 29-48N, 128-02E. 27 crewmen, 23 gunners and 4 passengers are KIA. At 0710, Kete also torpedoes and sinks Keizan Maru at 29-25, 127-30E. 43 crewmen and 64 troops are KIA. She was carrying a cargo of 30 Shinyo explosive motor boats, 12 aerial torpedoes, 1000-tons of equipment and 500 barrels of gasoline.		Photo courtesy of combinedfleet.com
	440k	Text accompanying this photo reads "Enlisted men repair and check instruments aboard a submarine just returned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. May 1945." Note: Many of the captions of Bristol's photography are lacking in details and some have the wrong dates, places and locations. The "23" boat in question in this photo is definitely NOT the S-23 (SS-128). It is beyond a doubt a Salmon or Gato/Balao class fleet boat, and I would lean toward a Balao. The date of the photo is probably early to mid 1944. The boat in question has the characteristicly fat, twin periscope shears and long, wide flat "cigarette" deck of a Balao. Directly above the head of the sailor who is working at the base of the aft scope is a radar mast. The sailor behind him is standing at and looking through the aft Target Bearing Transmitter (TBT). Barely visible on the far left of the photo is what I believe to be part of a 20 mm gun mount. None of these features were ever present on any of the S-boats, even thelater 40 series that were heavily modified (i.e. S-45 (SS-156) ) towards the end of the war. The whole conning tower fairwater on the boat in question is simply too large for a S-boat. As for the "23" on the fairwater, I have seen wartime photos of fleet boats displaying mysterious one and two digit numbers that do not correspond to their hull number (see the Guardfish (SS-217) and Peto (SS-265) pages for examples). Despite a lot of research, I have not turned up an official explanation for these strange numbers. One source said that they were squadron or flotilla identifiers, but I can't back this up officially. It is possible that they were temporary numbers assigned while the boats were in home waters, maybe to cut down on friendly fire incidents. Strangely enough, these numbers also seemed to have been used briefly during WWI, as I have seen them on D, E, F, G, and H-class boats. It is also entirely possible that these numbers are part of an official disinformation program designed to obscure the identities of the boats while allowing a wide distribution of photos to an information hungry wartime public. That would also account for the information inaccuracies attributed to otherwise highly thought of photographers. Riveted construction on the conning tower fairwaters of the fleet boats was far more common than I previously thought. It seems that the fairwater plating was riveted to the supporting structure underneath during construction on virtually all of the fleet boats, no matter who built it. This was possible due to the fact that the fairwater was non-watertight and merely provided for a smooth flow of water around the conning tower and lower periscope shears. Riveting was a long practiced and well known construction method, while welding was still relatively new and there was a fairly low number of skilled and experienced welders, and they had to be parceled out carefully depending on priority. All of the pressure resisting elements such as the conning tower and the main pressure hull were welded. The last fleet boat to have a riveted pressure hull was the Pompano (SS-181) in 1937. These original riveted fairwaters were retained until the end of the war, unless the boat had major rework of the fairwater performed (like most of the Gato's), or if the boat suffered battle damage. The rework jobs seemed to have been mostly welded. I would lay money on it being a Manitowoc built Balao class and I will stick with the early to mid 1944 date.		National Archives Record Administration (NARA) photo # 80-G-468179 & HD-SN-99-02504 by Lt. Comdr. Horace Bristol, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Partial text courtesy of Jason McDonald, President & Executive Producer MFA Productions LLC. worldwar2database.com Majority of text and photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston
	29k	Photo of the RO-33 showing bow anti-submarine net cutter. The RO-41 is representitive of that class of submarine which might have sunk the Kete (SS-369), but which was herself lost shortly after the Kete failed to return, according to Submarines Lost Through Enemy Action		Imperial War Museum photo, scanned from "Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy" by Polmar and Carpenter, courtesy of combinedfleet.com.
0836926	NR	Submarine Kete Overdue One of Navy's Newest The submarine Kete (SS-369), one of the Navy’s newest, is overdue from patrol and presumed lost, the Navy announced, last night. She carried a complement of between 80 and 85 officers and men, and was commanded by Lt. Comdr. Edward Ackerman, 31, Cincinnati. Next of kin of crew members have been notified. The Kete was 311 feet, 9 inches long, displaced 1,525 tons and was placed in commission July 31, 1943. Her loss brings to 49 the number of submarines reported lost since Pearl Harbor. It is the 320 naval vessel lost from all causes sines the beginning ef the war.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 01 July 1945, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	29k	Google Earth satellite photo of the general area in which Kete (SS-369) might have met her end. The Swordfish (SS-193) was also sunk not too far from this area, near Yaku Island off Kyushu.		View courtesy of Google Earth.
	108k	Photo of the area where Kete (SS-369) on 10 March, 1945, torpedoes and sinks the Japanese troop transport Keizan Maru (2116 BRT) and the Japanese army cargo ships Sanka Maru (2495 BRT) and Dokan Maru (2270 BRT) some 100 miles northwest of Amami o Shima in position 29.48N, 128.02E.		Courtesy of Great Circle Mapper - © Karl L Swartz, from uboat.net.
	99	Commemorative photo in honor of the memory of the crew of the Kete (SS-369).		Photo courtesy of Tom Kermen. Dante's Prayer courtesy of Loreena McKennitt via loreenamckennitt.com
0836930	2.21k	My grandmother was Mary Catherine Ackerman. She was the older sister of Edward Gus Ackerman the commander of the submarine. She's the one who designed the insignia for the Blowfish for the Kete (SS-369). She was a artist and a Gibson Girl and would illustrate their cards. Now the Insignia that you have on the website has been redone by Ray Young. But I'm going to send you a picture and you can clearly see that the original was his inspiration. She was still living in Ohio at the time I believe which is why she had it framed there. I know that my great uncle Gus along with somebody else walked my grandmother's drawing into the guys office who was in charge of design. And that sparked all of the other drawings that he did for the insignias. You can tell looking at this picture that's been submitted, that his name was added afterward and on the border. And it was typed on the actual print. This was my grandmother's drawing, not Ray's. His was much more comical and colorful. And I know that my grandmother didn't sign the front of that because she didn't feel it was necessary for an insignia. You don't put your name on the front of a design that's been commissioned. Front plate of the Kete insignia designed by Mary Catherine Ackerman.		Photo courtesy of Mary Catherine Ackerman via Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836925	321k	Back plate of the Kete (SS-369) insignia designed by Mary Catherine Ackerman.		Photo courtesy of Mary Catherine Ackerman via Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836929	1.70k	Mary Catherine Ackerman. She told me the worst day of her life wasn't even the day she found out that her brother had died: but it was the dread in her heart and her soul. As she drove her car across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, she was the only car on the bridge and the only car on the freeway from Alamo California out to Hunters Point because of the gas rationing. She said it was the loneliest drive home because she had a feeling that was the last time she was going to see her brother, and it was.		Photo courtesy of Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836907	2.54k	Edward Gus Ackerman, (on left), and his older sister, Mary Catherine Ackerman. Apparently for quite some time he aspired to a career in the Navy.		Photo courtesy of Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836931	961k	Edward Ackerman, and his cousin Billy Pierce on Chesapeake Bay.		Photo courtesy of Mary Catherine Ackerman via Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836927	1.87k	James Orr Kyle Jr and his wife Mary Catherine Ackerman relaxing in later life.		Photo courtesy of Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836928	2.65k	Ensign Edward Ackerman and his sister, Mary Catherine Ackerman upon his graduation from Annapolis.		Photo courtesy of Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice).
0836951	258k	Edward Ackerman, Lieutenant Commander (Commanding Officer) of the Kete (SS-369) at the time of her loss. CITATION: The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Lieutenant Commander Edward Ackerman (NSN: 0-82383), United States Navy, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the Kete, during the SECOND War Patrol of that Submarine in the Nansei Shoto Area. On 11 March 1945, this fighting Commanding Officer took his submarine out to meet the enemy. Despite severe enemy countermeasures he daringly launched torpedo attacks which resulted in the sinking of three enemy vessels, totaling 12,000 tons. While continuing this smashing offensive against the enemy, overwhelming enemy counterattacks were encountered which cause the loss of this outstanding submarine. His conduct throughout was an inspiration to all submarine personnel, and was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.		Photo & link courtesy of Kelly Schwerin (great grand neice). Insert USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
	117k	Joyce DaSilva, the wife of Jesse DaSilva of the Tang (SS-306), one of the nine survivors of the boat, tosses a flower into a reflecting pool to honor the memory of one of the 52 submarines lost during World War II at the National Submarine Memorial-West on board Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif. On this Veterans Day, the Submarine Veterans of World War II transferred ownership of the memorial to the U.S. Navy. The following text is from The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton., pg. 478. "Major Sullivan Ballou of Rhode Island was killed in the battle, and just before it he had wrote to his wife, Sarah, to tell her that he believed he was going to be killed and to express a tremulous faith that could see a gleam of light in the dark: "But O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and float unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you in the gladdest days and in the gloomiest nights, always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your chest it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait, for we shall meet again!"		Text i.d. courtesy of Marlynn Starring. Photo i.d. courtesy of Chuck Senior, Vice Commander, Los Angeles-Pasadena Base, USSVI. USN photo # N-1159B-021 by Journalist 2nd Class Brian Brannon, courtesy of news.navy.mil.
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	131k	The How & the Why there was a ROV in the waters where the Snook (SS-279) or Kete (SS-369) may be. My decision to protect company property (the SCORPIO ROV), to divert and avoid the surprise obstacle (rather than approach, investigate and take video footage) has haunted me ever since. I had never seen (nor will I ever again see) such a clear, well-defined symmetrical return image on a sonar screen as that day off the coast of Iriomote when our ship passed directly over the object. What we really did for a living - one of only three vessels licensed by Okinawa prefecture to harvest the semi-precious deep-water hard corals in prefecture waters. (All three vessels were ROV support ships - an ROV was required to harvest semi-precious corals). Portside view of Shinkai Chousa Maru. (Deep Sea Explorer) Originally a 90-ton net tender in the fishing industry, she was reworked into a 149-ton ROV support vessel, most of the added weight above the waterline. A bit top-heavy and less than stable in rough seas. Deck hand and ROV operator-trainee Chinen-san plays with the manipulator arm while Chef Yasumura hangs on to the cargo bracket. Yasumura-san never did develop his 'sea legs' (yes, he actually was a licensed chef and experienced at running hotel restaurants - sure did get seasick a lot in the galley though - had never worked aboard ship and thought it would be fun...?) Bringing SCORPIO 54 back home after a 'test and training' dive. Left to right our 1st engineer Nakamura-san (the younger), ship's radio officer and ROV operator-trainee Ganaha-san and chef Yasumura-san hand retrieving and stowing the final 50 meters of umbilical cable with floats (to keep the 'leash' end of heavy umbilical buoyant above the ROV). Chief engineer Nakamura-san (the elder, uncle) finally out of the engine room and able to relax with the ROV safely tied down. "Liberty call Iriomote island". Bosun Okuhara-san, myself, radio officer Ganaha-san and chef Yasumura-san on a jungle trial. We rarely tied up ashore, almost always anchored off a ways from land to keep the crew from spending money & getting drunk at night when they needed their rest... but we did need to take on fuel, water and food a couple times a month. If what I saw is a U.S. submarine, there were two possibilities as I recall. The other was most likely lost in the Taiwan strait? I visited the Undersea Warfare Museum to try to find out if US subs had been lost in the area during the war. And I was also curious about other deep sea ROVs... I never did check on the possibility of it being a Japanese submarine but I understand there were about five reported lost in the Ryukyu or Nantou islands? It is possible that it might be a Japanese submarine. The position off the west coast of Iriomote is probably not the safest place for a submarine to 'stand by' for a plane guard watch but it would have given the option to proceed either north or south of the islands. Shallow reef between the main islands of Iriomote and Ishigaki prevented any transit between them by ships or submarines. Americans, myself included, have little or no knowledge of the 'other war' in the Ryukyu islands - the battle conducted mainly by our British allies in the Yaeyama area. While I am aware British pilots were captured and summarily executed on Ishigaki, I really know nothing of the campaign to secure the outer islands by the British. Would the west coast of Iriomote have been a good position for a plane guard watch? Is a 350-400 meter seabed (near undersea sheer cliffs of stone at the edge of the shallows) a sufficient zone of safety for a submarine of that time? I've never really thought too much about why a submarine would have been there... and I no longer have the charts for that area - including the chart I sketched the sonar image on in the bridge that day along with exact lat-long position. It is possible that this may be the Snook (SS-279). It is also just as possible it may be a Japanese sub. Based on the symmetry and rough dimensions of the sonar image, it is either a submarine or it may be an extremely large, long, cylindrical steel tank someone disposed of? I would place my bet that it is a lost submarine.		Photos & text courtesy of Gary Troemner.
	258k	The fate of the Kete (SS-369) is not known. There were 4 Japanese submarines sunk in her patrol area which never reported back to Tokyo, and one of them may have sunk the Kete. Simply conjecture, but this could have been the view through the periscope lens of a Japanese submarine when she sunk the Kete. This is a photo of the Devilfish (SS-292), being sunk as a target by Wahoo (SS-565) at San Francisco, CA., 14 August 1968. In Memorium: In the Second Book of Shmuel (Samuel), 22nd chapter, 5th through the 20th verses, translated from the original in Hebrew and published by the Koren Publishers of Jerusalem, Israel, 1982, can perhaps aptly describe the fate of the crew and all other U.S. submariners who died defending their county: "When the waves of death compassed me / the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; / the bonds of She'ol encircled me; / the snares of death took me by surprise; / in my distress I called upon the Lord, / and cried to my G-D: / and he heard my voice out of his temple, / and my cry entered into his ears. / Then the earth shook and trembled; /the foundations of heaven moved / and shook because of his anger /...the heavy mass of waters, and thick clouds of the skies /... And the channels of the sea appeared, / the foundations of the world were laid bare, / at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast at the breath of his nostrils. / He sent from above, he took me; / he drew me out of many waters; / he delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too strong for me. / They surprised me in the day of my calamity: / but the Lord was my stay / He brought me forth also into a large place: / he delivered me because he delighted in me./"		USN photo, courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.

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View the Kete (SS-369)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
On Eternal Patrol
ComSubPac Report on the loss of USS KETE (SS 369) March 20, 1945 - 87 Men Lost
Ep-21 (1) - Victory At Sea ~ Full Fathom Five - HQ
Manitowoc Built Submarines

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