Lost on 01 JUN 1944 with the loss of 83 officers and men near Matsuwa Island.
USS HERRING was on her eight war patrol and was conducting a surface attack when a shore battery spotted her.
In a counter-attack, the enemy shore batteries scored two direct hits on USS HERRING's conning tower and "bubbles covered an area about 3 miles wide, and heavy oil covered an area of approximately 15 miles."
Before being sunk, she had sank a freighter and a passenger-cargoman.
USS HERRING was the only US submarine to be sunk by a land battery.