"The USS Thresher (SS-200), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first United States Navy ship to be named for the thresher shark...commissioned on 27 August 1940, with Lieutenant Commander William Lovett Anderson (Annapolis, Class of 1926) in command.
Thresher received 15 battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation for World War II service, placing her among the highest decorated US ships of the Second World War."
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