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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58329

Patrol Boat # 39
(Japanese Escort Vessel, originally the destroyer Tade, 1922)

Montage of eight periscope photographs showing her sinking after being torpedoed by USS Seawolf (SS-197) on 23 April 1943.
The original print was signed by Seawolf's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Royce L. Gross, who presented it to Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 198KB; 1200 x 990 pixels

 

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15 September 2004