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 | | From right to left, the three “B”s – Bonita (SS-165), Barracuda (SS-163), and Bass (SS-164) – lie alongside their tender, USS Argonne (AS-10), in late 1927 at San Diego. |
 | | All served in World War Two, six of them on war patrols in the central Pacific, and among those, one – Argonaut – was lost to enemy action. |
 | | Renamed Barracuda, Bass, and Bonita in 1931, they were decommissioned in 1937, and only the imminence of World War Two provided a reprieve, in preparation for which they were recommissioned in September 1940. |
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