After the end of WW2 the attacks on the Parche continued! The WW2 submarine was assigned to the famous Bikini Island Operation Crossroads as a target ship for a series of atomic bomb tests. Tough as always, the Parche survived both an atomic airburst blast and the underwater burst, coming through two atomic blasts relatively undamaged!
After decontamination, she was decommissioned on December 10, 1946 and moved to the moth ball fleet Alameda, California in March 1947.
Parche was removed from the Navy List on November 8, 1969 and sold for scrap. Her original conning tower barrel, bridge structure, shears, and upper gun from the war are on display at the Naval Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor.
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