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USS Runner Submarine Envelope 1941 Lost at Sea
Item: WWII4918

Envelope is dated December 8, 1941.  On 27 May 1943, under command of Lieutenant Commander Joseph H. Bourland, the USS Runner departed for the Kuril Islands chain and off northern Japan. No report was heard from her. Captured Japanese records indicated that she sank the cargo ship Seinan Maru on 11 June in Tsugaru Strait off Hokkaidō and on 22 June 1943 Runner was attacked and apparently damaged by Japanese naval forces.  Runner was declared overdue and presumed lost in July 1943 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 October 1943.