Sunk by scuttling in the Gilberts Archipelogo with the loss of 43 men following an attack near Truk.
On her ninth war patrol, severely damaged by depth charges after attacking an enemy convoy, USS SCULPIN continued to fight on the surface.
When Commanding Officer CDR Connaway was killed, the crew abandoned ship and scuttled her.
Forty-one survivors were taken prisoner but only twenty-one survived the war.
Among those not abandoning ship was CAPT Cromwell, aboard as a potential wolf-pack commander, and he rode the USS SCULPIN down, fearing that vital information in his possession might be compromised under torture.
For this, CAPT Cromwell was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.