Photo #: NH 42077
Memorial to USS Swordfish (SS-193)
At St. Paul, Minnesota, January 1967. It features a torpedo and
has plaques on either side, one in memory of Swordfish
crewmen lost with their submarine off Okinawa in January 1945.
The other plaque memorializes the fifty-one other U.S. Navy submarines
lost during World War II.
The memorial was financed and built by the City Council, Minnesota
Building Tradesmen and the Minnesota Viking Squadron of the U.S.
Submarine Veterans of World War II.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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