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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-338383

Japanese "Kairyu" Type Midget Submarines


At the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, September 1945.
Several of these boats have numbers on their conning towers. Those with numbers 4016 (at left) and 4018 (3rd from left) are training versions, with a second periscope mounted behind the main periscope's fairing.

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

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7 April 2000