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Photo #: NH 74515

USS Growler
(SS-215)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication "United States Submarine Operations in World War II," page 207.
The photo was taken while Growler was alongside USS Fulton (AS-11) at Brisbane, Australia in February 1943, after ramming a Japanese Patrol Vessel in the Bismarck Islands area on 7 February 1943. Note her badly bent bow.
Growler's Commanding Officer, Commander Howard W. Gilmore, USN, lost his life in this action.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

Online Image: 111KB; 620 x 765 pixels

 

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    Image Posted 29 October 2008