Second War Patrol
On 15 November, Skate departed Midway for her second war patrol, conducted off Truk in the Caroline Islands. On 25 November, she sighted the masts of five warships; but, after firing a spread of torpedoes at overlapping aircraft carriers, she was forced down by depth charging from the escort ships.
On 30 November, Skate attacked Japanese carriers Zuihō, Chuyō, and Unyō without success.
While north of Truk on 21 December, the submarine torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Terukawa Maru. During a rain squall on Christmas Day 1943, she made a daring attack which damaged the battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese Fleet. Skate returned to Midway for refit on 7 January 1944.
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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)