Editing USS Cod (section)

===Sixth patrol, March 1945 – May 1945 ===
On 24 March she sailed from Pearl Harbor for the East China Sea on her sixth war patrol. Assigned primarily to lifeguard duty, she used her deck gun to sink a [[tugboat]] and its tow on 17 April, rescuing three survivors, and on 24 April launched an attack on a convoy which resulted in the most severe depth charging of her career. The next day, she sent the [[minesweeper (ship)|minesweeper]] ''W-41'' to the bottom. On 26 April ''Cod'' was threatened by a fire in the aft torpedo room, but the ship's crew brought the fire under control and manually launched a torpedo already in its tube before the fire could detonate it. QM2c Lawrence E. Foley and S1c Andrew G. Johnson were washed overboard while freeing the torpedo room hatch. Foley was recovered the next morning, but Johnson drowned during the night. This was ''Cod''{{'s}} only fatality during [[World War II]].<ref>McDaniel, J.T., Ed. (2005) ''USS Cod: American Submarine War Patrol Reports'', Riverdale, Georgia: Riverdale Books, pp. 241–242. {{ISBN|1-932606-04-1}}</ref>