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Eli Thomas Reich
Vice Admiral Eli Thomas Reich (March 20, 1913 New York – November 30, 1999 Arlington, Virginia) was a highly decorated United States Navy officer and World War II submarine commander — the only one to sink a battleship during the war. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery (Section 30, Grave 950-A).
==World War II service==
A 1935 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Reich attended the submarine school at New London, Connecticut, then in 1939 became executive officer and engineer on the first . ''Sealion'' was the first US submarine damaged in World War II; it was bombed on December 10, 1941 while undergoing repairs at Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, and later scuttled, four men were killed and three others wounded during the bombing.
After ''Sealion'' was scuttled Reich served on the staff of the submarine commander at Corregidor and Bataan in the Philippines, escaping aboard before the surrender of U.S. forces there in the spring of 1942. He was executive officer aboard the in 1943, then in March 1944 assumed command of the second .
Under Reich's command, ''Sealion II'' was credited with sinking the , the only Japanese battleship sunk by submarine during World War II, the destroyer , and a prisoner of war ship, ''Rayuko Maru''. After sinking the POW ship, ''Sealion II'' surfaced and rescued 23 Australian and 31 British prisoners of war from the sea.()
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