RADM JOHN FYFE
Member #702-1988
JOHN "Jake" FYFE was
Skipper of USS BATFISH for several patrols and during one patrol, sank
several Japanese submarines. His boat, the BATFISH, stands as a
permanent tribute to the crew of the boat and to American submariners of World
War II. She is in a landlocked park in Muskogee, Oklahoma. To get
there, she was brought up the Mississippi and the White Rivers and other
waterways to a man-made canal dug directly to her permanent site in the
park. This waterway was financed by a local source and when the boat was
in position, the canal was backfilled, grass and shrubs were planted and today, USS
BATFISH sails quietly in a grassy park in Oklahoma.