USS Muskallunge (SS-262)
USS Muskallunge (SS-262), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the muskallunge, a fish of the pike family found in the upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes region, and northward.
Her keel was laid down 7 April 1942 by Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut. She was launched 13 December 1942 (sponsored by Mrs. Merritt D. Graham, widow of Chief Torpedoman Graham who was lost in Grunion (SS-216) in July 1942), and commissioned 15 March 1943, Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Willard A. Saunders (Class of 1927) in command.
Read more about USS Muskallunge (SS-262): First War Patrol, September 1943 – January 1944, Third, Fourth, and Fifth War Patrols, April – December 1944, Sixth and Seventh War Patrols, April – August 1945, Humaitá (S14), 1957–1968