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Photo #: USN 1050058

USS Sealion
(SS-195)

Wreckage of the submarine, photographed at the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, after its capture by the Japanese.
Sealion had been fatally damaged by Japanese bombs on 10 December 1941 and was scuttled on 25 December, before U.S. forces abandoned Cavite.
Copied from a wartime Japanese publication.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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Image posted 25 January 2005