Editing USS Cod (section)

===Second patrol, February 1944 – March 1944 ===
''Cod'' put to sea for her second war patrol in the South China Sea, off [[Java (island)|Java]], and off [[Halmahera]]. On 16 February, she surfaced to sink a [[sampan]] by gunfire, and on 23 February, [[torpedo]]ed a Japanese [[cargo ship|merchantman]]. She sent another to the bottom on 27 February, ''Taisoku Maru'' (2,473 tons) and two days later attacked a third, only to be forced deep by a concentrated [[depth charge|depth charging]] delivered by a Japanese escort ship.