VF-15 of ) who had survived four and one-half days at sea in a small rubber boat without food, water, or sunshade. The wolfpack returned to Majuro on 8 November. Ninth and tenth war patrols, December 1944–April 1945 Sawfish got underway on 17 December 1944 and returned to waters off Formosa where she spent her entire ninth war patrol on lifeguard station. She rescued a pilot on 21 January 1945 before heading toward Guam. She reached Apra Harbor on 4 February for refit.Sawfish sailed on 10 March for her 10th and last war patrol, which she spent on lifeguard station off Nansei Shoto supporting air strikes preparing for and covering the conquest of Okinawa. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 26 April and soon proceeded to San Francisco for overhaul in the Bethlehem Steel Company yard there. Post-World War II Sawfish was heading toward Hawaii on 15 August 1945 when hostilities ended. She reached Pearl Harbor on 22 August but soon headed back to the west coast for duty as a training ship for the West Coast Fleet Sound School. She returned to Hawaii early in 1946, but was back at San Francisco on 22 March for inactivation. She was decommissioned on 26 June 1946 and remained in reserve at Mare Island Naval Shipyard until May 1947 when she proceeded to San Pedro for duty as a Naval Reserve training ship. On 1 April 1960, Sawfish was stricken from the Navy List and scrapped. Honors and awardsSawfish received eight battle stars for service during World War II. In popular culture USS Sawfish is credited in the 1957–58 television series The Silent Service as the platform for the film sequences. The name "USS Sawfish" is used for a fictional nuclear-powered submarine in the 1959 film On the Beach, where it is portrayed by , a Royal Navy diesel-electric submarine. USS Sawfish portrayed the fictional submarine USS Moray'' in the Season 3 Episode 23 episode of Perry Mason, "The Case of the Slandered Submarine" (1960). References Citations Bibliography Hinman, Charles R., and Douglas E. Campbell. The Submarine Has No Friends: Friendly Fire Incidents Involving U.S. Submarines During World War II. Syneca Research Group, Inc., 2019. . External links history.navy.mil: USS Sawfish hazegray.org: USS Sawfish navsource.org: USS Sawfish Kill record: USS Sawfish Gato-class submarines World War II submarines of the United States Ships built in Kittery, Maine 1942 ships Maritime incidents in February