sinking 7,000 more tons of enemy shipping. On 6 October Pogy fired and missed with 4 torpedoes at Nichiei Maru. On 26 October Pogy returned to Pearl Harbor. The submarine sailed for her patrol area again in the Palau Islands on 25 November. En route, on 7 December, she sighted a large cargo ship and a submarine tender escorted by a destroyer. In the ensuing attack three torpedoes hit and sank the 6,081-ton submarine tender, and one hit the cargo ship, before Pogy went deep to sit out an attack of 22 depth charges. She surfaced in the darkness to find the cargo ship dead in the water with the destroyer circling her. Pogy launched two torpedoes, both hits. On 13 December Pogy sank 3,821-ton transport Fukkai Maru leaving Palau loaded with troops. The angry escort dropped 27 depth charges during the counter-attack, the three closest charges causing damage which forced Pogy to return to Midway on 22 December. Fifth war patrol, February – March 1944 On 5 February 1944 Pogy departed Midway on her fifth war patrol for an anti-shipping sweep of the Formosa area. During the morning of 10 February, she spotted a convoy in Bashi Channel, off the southern tip of Formosa, guarded by three Japanese destroyers. Pogy attacked with five torpedoes, sinking the and 5,500-ton passenger-cargo ship Malta Maru, and damaging another cargo ship. Pogy then headed north up the east coast of Taiwan and, on 20 February, caught a convoy on the Tropic of Cancer. She sank the 5,154-ton cargo ship Taizin Maru with two torpedoes and the 3,610-ton cargo ship Nanyo Maru with one. Three days later in Ryukyu waters, Pogy sank another cargo ship, before heading for Pearl Harbor, arriving 8 March 1944. Sixth war patrol, April – June 1944 On 7 April 1944 she departed on her sixth patrol, southeast of Japan. The night of 28–29 April, Pogy sighted and sank the Japanese submarine . She then attacked and sank a cargo ship on 5 May, and a medium cargo ship on 13 May. Three days later Pogy sank a 20-ton sampan by gunfire, and captured five of her crew. On 20 May, Pogy destroyed a small trawler and arrived back in Pearl Harbor 29 May. She departed Pearl Harbor 1 June for a West Coast navy yard overhaul, arriving at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco. 8 June. Pogy left for