Who was Samuel David Dealey? Born in Texas and the nephew of a Dallas newspaper publisher, he graduated from Annapolis and eventually found himself on submarines. His first command was USS S-20 ...

The sub, helmed by the famed Cmdr. Samuel D. Dealey, spent days fighting the enemy ships alongside the USS Hake and USS Haddo in the South China Sea. The trio had sunk three escort ships ...

The USS Harder, led by famed Cmdr. Samuel D. Dealey, earned a legendary reputation during its fifth patrol when it sunk three destroyers and heavily damaged two others in just four days ...

On Aug. 24, 1944, helmed as always by native Texan Cmdr. Samuel Dealey, the USS Harder went into battle in Dasol Bay off the west coast of Luzon, the main island of the Philippines. This ...

The counterattack was a success and the USS Harder sank, lost for 80 years. 79 sailors, Dealey among them, went down with the submarine. The submarine and its crew would earn the Presidential Unit ...

Dealey was the submarine’s only commander ... for the sixth war patrol. The wreckage of the USS Harder is protected under U.S. law and “should be respected by all parties as a war grave ...

It was commissioned on December 2, 1942 with Cmdr Samuel Dealey in charge. The USS Harder got lost on August 24, 1944, with 79 on board. Its final resting place has finally been confirmed by the ...

The USS Harder, led by famed Cmdr. Samuel D. Dealey, earned a legendary reputation during its fifth patrol when it sunk three destroyers and heavily damaged two others in just four days ...

Dealey. Related: Memorial Day is a time to remember ... The discovery comes about 80 years after the sixth and final patrol of the USS Harder, which was sunk by enemy forces in the fall of 1944 ...

The USS Harder lies under 3,000 feet (about 900 ... Harder, which had the motto of “Hit ‘em Harder,” was captained by Cmdr. Samuel Dealey, who would be posthumously awarded the Medal of ...