***On her twelfth and final patrol of the war, USS Barb (SS-220) landed a party of carefully selected crew members who blew up a train, the only ground combat operation in the Japanese home islands.
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Gotta love the train on her Battle Flag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Barb_(SS-220)#/media/File:USS_Barb_crew_1945_i03570.jpg
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Gotta love the train on her Battle Flag...
I worked on the restoration of the USS Bowfin back in the late seventies/early eighties. Here's her battle flag.