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wwengr -> USS Pathfinder AGS-1 (1/30/2010 2:57:30 PM)
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The USS Pathfinder (AGS-1) is not in the game, but did serve in the Pacific. It would not have a game function, so most players would find it to be useless except for her depth charge armaments, plus a couple of 3" guns for AA.
The Pathfinder was a survey ship from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey that was taken into the US Navy and used to make maps in preparation for invasions and such.
An interesting bit of trivia: The United States has seven uniformed services with federally commissioned officers. They are the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanographic and Atmoshperic Administration, and the United States Public Health Service. I imagine many readers may not have known about the last two. NOAA was formerly the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
All seven services participated in WWII and the PTO. The Air Force was the United States Army Air Corps and NOAA was the USC&GS. Commissioned officers of NOAA and USPHS wear navy Uniforms and Rank.
Quite interestingly, Pathfinder saw quite a lot of action during the war. She was at General Quarters 170 times, operated along the New Guinea coast preparing invasions and surveying harbors, attacked by air several times and even struck by a Kamikazee at Okinawa.
Although taken into Naval Service, the ship operated with USC&GS Officers in the crew.
Her story http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/pathfinder14.html
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