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Today In History - April 19th
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| Sunday, April 19, 1942 |  USS Pike (SS-173) : On her 3rd war patrol, she sailed from Fremantle, Australia,and patrolled north of the Palau Islands and off Wake Island. | | Sunday, April 19, 1942 | USS Gar (SS-206) : During Gar's 2nd war patrol, she scored hits on a freighter off Kwajalein atoll and a submarine decoy Q-ship west of Truk atoll. | | Monday, April 19, 1943 | USS Flying Fish (SS-229) : Flying Fish sank another freighter. | | Monday, April 19, 1943 | USS Scamp (SS-277) : Scamp put to sea again on her 2nd war patreol, bound for the Southwest Pacific. She took on fuel at Johnston Island then slipped between the Marshalls and the Gilberts to reconnoiter Ocean Island and Nauru Island. | | Wednesday, April 19, 1944 | USS Finback (SS-230) : Finback sank one of a group of sampans. | | Thursday, April 19, 1945 | USS Dragonet (SS-293) : Dragonet sailed on her 2nd war patrol. | | Thursday, April 19, 1945 | USS Sennet (SS-408) : Sennet torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Hagane Maru. | | Friday, April 19, 1946 | USS Sarda (SS-488) : Commissioned with CDR. Chester W. Nimitz, Jr., son of the famous Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in command.
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