contact and shortly thereafter a torpedo wake crossed her bow, indicating that an enemy vessel had first located her. Toro dove and had no further contact with the unseen attacker. Toro continued patrols and lifeguard duty in Bungo Suido until 14 June when she set her course for the Mariana Islands. She moored at Apra Harbor five days later. Second War Patrol Following refit by submarine tender , Toro got underway from Guam on 14 July; paused briefly at Saipan for fuel, water, and the replacement of her torpedoes with Mark 18s; and arrived in her patrol area south of Shikoku on 24 July. Late in the day, she was drawn far out of her assigned area in a fruitless search for a downed flier. The departure of Toro’s air cover at 18:00 left her in a most dangerous situation due to the expected passage of an American task force on an antishipping sweep. Unable to clear the area in time, Toro made radar contact with the task force at 20:55. Despite attempts to establish her identity, Toro was soon the target of two obviously unfriendly American ships which bore down on her at a speed of . The destroyer opened gunfire and bracketed Toro with her first salvo at a distance of . Toro crash-dived and attempted to establish her identity using a flare, smoke bombs, and sonar, but the ships were still firing when she passed . She continued down to and rigged for depth charges. The surface vessels, thinking that Colahan had sunk a Japanese picket boat, remained in the area for half an hour searching for survivors without discovering that their target had been a friendly submarine. At 01:00 on 25 July, Toro surfaced and set her course back to her patrol area. That morning, she returned to her lifeguard station and, in the afternoon, rescued three British aviators afloat on a raft. She maintained her station for carrier strikes against Japan on 28 July and, shortly after noon on 30 July, received a distress message from a United States Army Air Corps P-51 Mustang plane. After circling his plane over the submarine the pilot parachuted from the crippled aircraft at an altitude of only . Within seven minutes, Toro’s crew brought the aviator on board. She transferred the rescued British fliers to submarine on 1 August. On 5 August, while patrolling her lifeguard area for