February 26th - On This Date - USN Submarine Service

1921 - 

 PCU S-48 (SS-159) launched at Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, CT; sponsored by Mrs. James O. Germaine.

1942 - 

USS S-38 (SS-143) executed the first U.S. submarine shore bombardment when she fired on a Japanese radio station at Sangkapura on the island of Bawean off Java.

1962 - 

 Rear Admiral Ignatius J. "Pete" Galantin relieved Vice Admiral William F. "Red" Raborn, Jr., as Director, Special Projects. Under Raborn's direction, the Submarine Ballistic Missile Program became a reality and would become the strongest leg of the Nuclear Deterrence Triad.

1965 -  

USS SCABBARDFISH (SS-397) decommissioned and transferred (loaned) to Greece.

1966 -  

PCU STURGEON (SSN-637) launched at General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, MA; sponsored by Mrs. Everett M. Dirksen.

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