Second Patrol
Lent, with exec John Hollingsworth, was sent by Admiral Withers, to the East China Sea in January 1942, where he met filthy winter weather patrolling between Nagasaki, Shanghai, Dairen, and Korea. Lent made fourteen contacts, firing twelve torpedoes, earning credit for sinking two ships totalling 12,000 tons (reduced to 5982 tons JANAC postwar) Withers was praiseful, but nitpicked Lent's "squandering" torpedoes (as critical as he had been with Joe Grenfell and Dave White before), because production from Newport Torpedo Station was running drastically behind use. He also criticised Lent's failure to follow up attacks and undue caution around Japanese aircraft. This was following prewar doctrine, however.
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