On 2 July "Pogy" departed Pearl Harbor for the Sea of Japan on her tenth and last war patrol. She made a run under the minefields and patrolled in the "Emperor's private ocean" until V-J Day. Hunting was better on this patrol. On 27 July "Pogy" sank a large freighter with two torpedoes, damaged a 10,000-ton tanker on 2 August, and on 5 August destroyed the 2,200-ton freighter "Kotohirasan Maru". She returned to Midway 21 August with her World War II career completed.