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Today In History - March 29th
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Monday, March 29, 1943   USS S-32 (SS-137) :  S-32 sailed West on her 7th war patrol. Enroute to Attu, cold weather caused icing on the superstructure, but the seas remained fairly calm and the sun was occasionally visible.
Monday, March 29, 1943   USS Tarpon (SS-175) :  Tarpon departed on her 7th war patrol, which produced no ship contacts, but Tarpon did bombard the radio station at Taroa with her deck gun until return fire from Japanese batteries ashore prompted her to withdraw from the area.
Monday, March 29, 1943   USS Paddle (SS-263) :  Commissioned with LCDR. R. H. Rice in command.
Wednesday, March 29, 1944   USS Cobia (SS-245) :  Commissioned with LCDR. A. L. Becker in command.
Wednesday, March 29, 1944   USS Tunny (SS-282) :  (Cont'd.) Tunny fired 6 torpedoes at the battleship from her bow tubes. Hits by 2 of Tunny's torpedoes had damaged but failed to slow the powerful battleship.
Wednesday, March 29, 1944   USS Tinosa (SS-283) :  In company with Parche (SS-384) and Bang (SS-385), Tinosa got underway for the East China Sea and her 6th war patrol.
Wednesday, March 29, 1944   USS Parche (SS-384) :  Parche sailed out of Pearl Harbor, HI. with Tinosa (SS 283) and Bang (SS-385) for her 1st war patrol.
Thursday, March 29, 1945   USS Macabi (SS-375) :  Commissioned with CDR. Anthony H. Dropp in command.
Thursday, March 29, 1945   USS Sea Devil (SS-400) :  Sea Devil sank or exploded 4 mines and attempted to do the same to 2 others.
Thursday, March 29, 1945   USS Stickleback (SS-415) :  Commissioned with CDR. Lawrence G. Bernard in command.
Monday, March 29, 1993   USS John Marshall (SSBN-611) :  John Marshall was disposed of through the Nuclear Power Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.