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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-39745

Fais Island
(near Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands)

Periscope photograph, taken by USS Wahoo (SS-238) on 27 January 1943. The view shows a refinery and large warehouse adjacent to a phosphate works.
Wahoo had intended to shell the latter, but had to break off when an enemy ship came on the scene.
(See: "Photographic Intelligence Report # 82, 17 March 1943")

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 550 pixels

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4 February 2002