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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58138

USS U-2513
(1946-1951),
Originally German submarine U-2513 (1945)

View of the submarine's sail, taken at an Atlantic Coast port on 5 November 1946, during a visit by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz is in the right center, with his back to a "whip" radio antenna. Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, is in the center, just to the left of FAdm. Nimitz.
Note the submarine's insignia, at left.

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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10 May 2004