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    USS Gar (SS-206) was the first of the Gar subclass of the Tambor-class submarines to be commissioned for the United States Navy just prior to the country's...
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  • attributed to the "Gar class" USS Gar (SS-206), a World War II submarine Gardiner railway station, Melbourne Gar mine, in Russia Garfield "Gar" Logan, DC Comics...
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    Knight's Move). Escorting the convoy were the battleships Duke of York and USS Washington and the carrier Victorious. Tirpitz, Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers...
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    torpedoed and sunk on 9 May 1943 by the US submarine USS Gar off Negros Island's south-west coast. The USS Frank E. Evans was decommissioned at Subic Bay and...
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    USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after...
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  • Evarts-class destroyer escort USS Fleming (DE-271), she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945 and in the U.S. Navy as USS Garlies (DE-271) from August to...
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    course, Griffith was assigned as the executive officer and navigator on USS Gar (SS-206) during her seventh patrol from April to May 1943. Following this...
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    yet built, a record she held until the 81,000-metric-ton (80,000-long-ton) USS Forrestal was launched in 1954. She was designed for a crew of 2,400 officers...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942)
    10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USS Cacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof...
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    . U.S.S. GAR (SS-206)" on Gar's first and tenth patrols. On July 6, 1944, LCDR Street reported to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to fit out the USS Tirante (SS-420)...
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