| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| 1941 | May 15 | Keel laid down at Electric Boat Co., Groton,CT. |
| 1942 | Mar 6 | Launched. |
| | Jun 19 | Commissioned with LCDR. John Archibald Bole, Jr., in command.
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| | Jul 20 | Departed for the Pacific. |
| | Aug 20 | Arrived at Pearl Harbor, HI. |
| | Sep 3 | Departed on her 1st war patrol. |
| | Sep 15 | Amberjack was patrolling off Kavieng, New Ireland |
| | Sep 18 | Amberjack made contact with a large Japanese transport escorted by a destroyer and fired a spread of four torpedoes at the vessels, but none hit. |
| | Sep 19 | Amberjack fired two torpedoes at an enemy freighter. The first hit under the target's bridge and the second broke her keel in two. Amberjack was credited with having sunk the passenger-cargo vessel Shirogane Maru.
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| | Oct 7 | Amberjack sank the Japanese cargo ship Senkai Maru. |
| | Oct 30 | Arrived at Brisbane, Australia. |
| | Nov 21 | Departed on her 2nd war patrol. |
| | Nov 27 | Amberjack encountered 2 destroyers and fired 4 torpedoes. None hit their target. |
| | Dec 15 | Amberjack sighted a convoy consisting of four or five ships on a course for Rabaul and fired two torpedoes at a large freighter. one at a small tanker, and one more at a small freighter. However. she apparently inflicted no damage on any of the targets.
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| 1943 | Jan 11 | Arrived at Brisbane, Australia. |
| | Jan 26 | Departed on her 3rd war patrol. |
| | Feb 14 | She reported having been forced down on the 13th by two destroyers, and that she had recovered an enemy aviator from the water and taken him prisoner. All further messages to the vessel remained unanswered. 74 men lost. |
| | Jun 21 | Struck from the Naval Register. |