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SS-409 Piper
United States Navy submarine
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Balao | 1944/03/15 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | 1944/06/26 | 1944/08/23 | 1971/06
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| Namesake: A fish of the halfbeaks family found in warm seas mostly along the shore. It swims at the surface, occasionally leaping into the air, and is named from the noise it makes when taken out of the water. | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 44/12? | joinPac | ||||
| 45/01 | 45/01/25 | P.H. | 66 | ||
| 45/01/25 | 45/03/30 | Mac's Mops/F | patro01: Honshu | 81 | |
| 45/02/10 | Mac's Mops/F | patro01: arrived patrol area S of Iwojima | 66 | ||
| 45/02/15 | 45/03/24 | Mac's Mops/F | patro01: S and SE of Honshu | 66 | |
| 45/02/25 | Mac's Mops/F | patro01: sinking AK Koho Maru (2000 BRT) and guardboat Hosen Maru #3 E of Hainan (20-04N, 111-22E) | 66 85 | ||
| 45/03/30 | 45/04/26 | Midway - refit | 66 | ||
| 45/04/26 | 45/06/13 | wolfpack | patro02: Sea of Okhotsk | 66 | |
| 45/05/03 | patro02: surface antishipping sweep | 66 | |||
| 45/05/14 | 45/05/25 | patro02: surface antishipping sweep | 66 | ||
| 45/05/27 | patro02: sinking merchant (4000 BRT) in Boussole Channel | 66 | |||
| 45/06/04 | patro02: departed area | 66 | |||
| 45/06/13 | 45/07/19 | P.H. - refit | 66 | ||
| 45/07/19 | 45/08/2? | patro03: Sea of Japan | 66 | ||
| 45/08/01 | 45/08/04 | patro03: Guam - advanced training | 66 | ||
| 45/08/11 | patro03: sinking 2 small fishing vessels | 66 | |||
| 45/08/13 | patro03: entered Sea of Japan | 66 | |||
| 45/08/16 | patro03: attacked by unknown attacker in Japan Sea | 85 | |||