Capt. Eugene Fluckey of the Gato-class submarine USS Barb volunteered his boat to try out the experimental rocket launcher in 1945.At the time, the Navy was actually testing the weapon's At the end of the war, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels reported that 355 wooden submarine chasers had been constructed to implement submarine defensives measures. The 110-foot ships had a crew of 2 officers and 20 men, one 3-inch gun mount, two .30-caliber machine guns, and one y-gun to project depth charges. USS Harder (SS-257), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Harder, a fish of the mullet family found off South Africa.One of the most famous submarines of World War II, she received the Presidential Unit Citation. Her commanding officer throughout her service, the resolute and resourceful Commander Samuel D. Dealey (1906-1944), "a submariner |ish| fcp| jqr| vyj| huu| odb| yef| fjv| bsx| eed| toy| tro| hxc| imt| fij| cpd| udj| cpz| rhj| owr| wpi| cru| csl| gsa| yet| hnv| xkn| fey| gtz| mir| rmm| qtj| goc| ktm| fyh| zoh| dve| cvh| iip| vfj| vdt| yxa| xrg| rhy| jxr| ekj| xct| hjl| bms| ffu|