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After sinking Admiral Kurita?òs flagship, the heavy cruiser IJN Atago, and damaging the heavy cruiser IJN Takao, on 23 October 1944, the submarine USS Darter (SS-227) went aground on a reef. Despite much bombardment by Japanese aircraft and U.S. submari