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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-350027

Japanese "Kaiten" Type 1 Human Torpedo


After recovery by U.S. forces at Ulithi Atoll in 1945.
This is the after half of the "Kaiten". The forward portion, including warhead, forward oxygen & fuel tanks and the crew compartment, is missing, and may have been destroyed in an explosion of the warhead.

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

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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25 May 2000