Fairwater of USS Pintado (SS-387)
Pintado made six war patrols in enemy waters, during which she disposed of five naval vessels and ten merchantmen of the Empire of Japan, sunk or otherwise disabled, totaling 132,900 tons of enemy shipping. During her fifth patrol, she rescued all twelve crew members of the B-29 “City of Galveston.”
Pintado was awarded two Presidential Unit Citations for extraordinary heroism during her first three patrols, the Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia with three stars, and five Battle Stars for her Asiatic-Pacific Theater of War participation.
Built Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine.
Keel laid: 7 May 1943
Launched: 15 September 1943
Commissioned, LCdr Bernard A. Clarey in command: 1 January 1944
Decommissioned: 6 March 1946
Pintado’s fairwater and periscope came to the National Museum of the Pacific War as loan from the United States Navy with the assistance of the USS Pintado Association.
Marker is on E. Austin Street east of N. Lincoln Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
