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 ended up being set straight down 5 Oct 1940 by the Electric Boat Co., and commissioned 31 December 1941. GATO departed 16 February 1942 for Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal and san francisco bay area. On her behalf behalf very first war patrol from Pearl Harbor, she had been ordered to patrol the western techniques to Midway, happening 280 kilometers westward during that historic success. During the girl 4th war patrol, GATO torpedoed and sank 3 cargo vessels 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 her eighth war patrol into the Bismarck-New Guinea-Truk area. She sank a trawler, a transport, and a cargo ship. Two other trawlers was damaged by the girl gunfire before she came back to Pear Harbor. She sank a coast defense ship on 14 February 1944 and cargo ship on 21 February, after which it came back to Guam. GATO decommissioned 16 March 1946. GATO received the Presidential item Citation in recognition of bold exploits during war patrols four through eight and 13 battle movie stars for solution in World War II

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