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Following commissioning in 1943, the Crew of the new SS311, officially named USS ARCHERFISH was unofficially renamed USS Archer-Fish by the Crew. She carried that name throughout the War until She was decommissioned in 1946. When the USS ARCHERFISH was recommissioned in 1952, and throughout the
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Service, ending in 1968, She was known by the un-hyphenated version of Her name. Her successor, USS ARCHERFISH (SSN-678) also used the un-hyphenated version. The name Archer-Fish was used by a special Boat and a special Crew during a special era..........
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Archerfish is used throughout. Roscoe wrote the book at the behest of the Bureau of Naval Personnel and it was published in 1949, which belies the notion that the name Archerfish was somehow applied retroactively upon the boat's 1952 recommissioning.
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