Mike aka Proof - MAGA

He chose to go down with a submarine that wasn't even his. Because of what he knew. In November 1943, the U.S. Navy was about to launch its first big offensive in the Central Pacific, the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, including Tarawa. Captain John Cromwell was riding aboard the submarine USS Sculpin as commander of a wolf pack being set up near Truk. Cromwell knew things almost nobody else at sea knew. He knew the plans for the Gilbert Islands invasion. He knew the movements of the fleet. And he knew about Ultra, the secret that America had broken Japan's codes. On Nov 19, Sculpin attacked a Japanese convoy. A destroyer caught her and pounded her with depth charges. She was badly damaged, and her depth gauge failed, sending her far too deep. The crew forced her to the surface to fight it out with the deck gun. The destroyer opened fire. Shells tore into Sculpin, killing her captain and the officers on the bridge. The surviving officer gave the order to abandon ship and scuttle her. Cromwell knew what would happen if he was captured. The Japanese used torture and drugs on prisoners. He couldn't be sure he would keep the secrets. So he told the others he was staying. He went down with Sculpin. The survivors were captured. The story got even worse. Some were put aboard the Japanese carrier Chuyo for the trip to Japan. She was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sailfish. Most of the Sculpin men aboard her died. Sailfish had once been named Squalus. In 1939, she sank on a test dive off New Hampshire, and Sculpin was the boat that found her and helped save her crew. Cromwell's story only came out after the war, when the surviving Sculpin men were freed. He received the Medal of Honor, the most senior submariner awarded it in World War II.