her crew enjoyed a well-deserved rest period and she underwent an overhaul. Balao was decommissioned on 20 August 1946, and she was berthed in New London, Conn., as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 1952–1963 Balao was recommissioned on 4 March 1952 at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut, Lieutenant Commander S. V. Hadley in command, and assigned to the Atlantic Fleet's Submarine Squadron 4 (SubRon 4). After shakedown training, the submarine was reassigned to SubRon 12 at the U.S. Naval Base in Key West, Fla. There, she served primarily as a training ship for antisubmarine and Special Development Forces in the Key West and Guantánamo Bay operating areas. After making several goodwill visits to ports in the southern United States, Balao joined the ships of Destroyer Squadron 24 (DesRon 24) in a combined antisubmarine warfare (ASW) training and goodwill cruise to South America that began on 6 January 1957. After joint exercises with the navies of several South American countries, the ship made liberty calls to principal ports such as La Guaira, Venezuela; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The submarine returned to Key West on 22 March. Balao deployed to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base four times in the next year, spending one month each time training surface ships in "refresher training." The submarine departed Key West on 19 July 1958 for an overhaul at the Charleston Naval Shipyard. Upon its completion on 13 November, Balao conducted refresher training at New London, Conn. and Newport, Rhode Island. After Balaos return to Key West on 30 November, she and Archerfish spent 12 days of December in hunter-killer training. Operation Petticoat Balao starred as the "pink submarine" in the 1959 comedy film Operation Petticoat, co-starring with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis (photo). Return to service After her fame and stardom Operation Petticoat had subsided in 1960, Balao returned to local training operations. On 1 April, she was reclassified as an auxiliary submarine, AGSS-285, but continued to serve as a training ship. On 3 March 1961, Balao simulated a disabled submarine for the testing of a new device for individual escape. The mechanism, known as the "Steinke hood," enabled Commander W. F. Mazzone and Lieutenant H. E. Steinke, the hood's inventor, to ascend from a depth of to the surface in 55 seconds, setting a new record. From 28 June–4 November, the submarine