Photo #: 80-G-79973
Toroa Island, Maloeap Atoll, Marshall Islands
Periscope photograph taken by USS Pollack (SS-180) during
her Seventh War Patrol, May-June 1943.
A contemporary report stated that the photograph shows Toroa
airfield, bearing approximately 270 degrees (T), range two miles,
with periscope on high power. Break in the trees probably indicates
the end of one runway. An airplane is faintly visible, just about
to land (over and to left of the first periscope mark above the
horizon). Long, low, indistinct objects in the background may
be airfield buildings.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the
National Archives.
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