U.S. Navy Career
Condor was in Pearl Harbor when the attack occurred. In the early hours of 7 December 1941, sailors and officers aboard Condor spotted what looked like a periscope out of the water in the entrance to the harbor. They later found out that they spotted the periscope of a Japanese midget submarine attempting to get into the harbor. Condor's report was sent to the destroyer Ward (DD-139) which fired the first shots of the Pacific War. Condor spent the war in or near Hawaii with the U.S. Navy.
Condor was decommissioned on 17 January 1946, struck from the Navy List in February 1946, and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 24 July 1946. Fate unknown.
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