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USS Flasher (SS-249)
USS ''Flasher'' (SS-249) was a ''Gato''-class submarine which served in the Pacific during World War II. She received three Presidential Unit Citations and six battle stars, and sank 21 ships for a total of 100,231 tons of Japanese shipping.
She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flasher. Her keel was laid down 30 September 1942 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 20 June 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Saunders, wife of LCDR Willard Saunders, Commanding Officer of USS Muskallunge) and commissioned 25 September 1943, Lieutenant Commander Reuben T. Whitaker (Class of 1934) in command.
== First and second war patrols, January – May 1944 ==
''Flasher'' arrived at Pearl Harbor from New London 15 December 1943 to prepare for her first war patrol, for which she sailed 6 January 1944. Bound for her patrol area off Mindoro, she sank her first target 18 January, sending a 2,900-ton former gunboat ''Yoshida Maru'' to the bottom. Adding to what would be the greatest total of enemy tonnage credited to an American submarine in World War II, she sank a freighter off Manila 5 February, and sank two cargo ships of the same convoy on 14 February. ''Flasher'' arrived at Fremantle, Australia 29 February to refit. The 2 vessels sunk 14 February 1944 were the ''Minryo Maru'' and the ''Hokuan Maru''. See (). (The ''Hokuan Maru'' probably rammed and sunk the 9 September 1943.)
Action-bound once more, the submarine departed Fremantle 4 April 1944 for the coast of French Indochina on her second war patrol. On 29 April she contacted the French river gunboat ''Tahure'' guarding a freighter off the Hon Doi Islands, and sank both. After sinking a large cargo ship in the Sulu Sea 3 May, ''Flasher'' shaped course for Fremantle, arriving 28 May for refit until 19 June.
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