Trumpeter 05906 USS GATO SS-212 1944 WWII  [TP05906]

USS GATO SS-212 1944 Length basic: 95.0m Beam: 8.3m Displacement: 1825 t initial GATO finished up being set reduced 5 Oct 1940 by the electric Boat Co., and commissioned 31 December 1941. GATO departed 16 February 1942 for Pearl Harbor through the Panama Canal and bay area bay area bay area. On her behalf behalf behalf very first war patrol from Pearl Harbor, she had been truly bought to patrol the western ways to Midway, occurring 280 kilometers westward during that historic success. Through the entire girl 4th war patrol, GATO torpedoed and sank 3 cargo vessels straight down new Georgia, Solomon isles. On 30 November she made a coordinated assault with RAY, sinking the cargo ship COLUMBIA MARU. GATO departed Milne Bay 2 February 1944 to conduct the woman eighth war patrol in to the Bismarck-New Guinea-Truk area. She sank a trawler, a transport, and a cargo ship. Two other trawlers had been damaged by your ex gunfire before she came ultimately back to Pear Harbor. She sank a coast protection ship on 14 February 1944 and cargo ship on 21 February, after which it it it came back to Guam. GATO decommissioned 16 March 1946. GATO received the Presidential product Citation in recognition of bold exploits during war patrols four through eight and 13 battle celebrities for solution in World War II

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