Subsequent Wartime Career
Lent went on to command the troubled HOR-engined Haddo (SS-255) with SubRon 12 in England (which made dozens of patrols but did no recorded damage) and then SubRon 16, relieving Tex McLean, who went to the Submarine School. Lent's wartime score totalled 20,482 tons.
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