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Photo #: 80-G-K-16013 (Color)

Submarine Commanding Officer

Sights through a periscope in the submarine's control room, during training exercises at the Submarine Base, New London, Groton, Connecticut, in August 1943. In the background, another officer watches men at the control dials.
Photographed by a member of Edward Steichen's unit.
Note: Captain Edward L. Beach commented (during the mid-1980s) that this submarine is not a "Fleet Boat", but is more likely either USS Mackerel (SS-204) or USS Marlin (SS-205). He also thought that the officer at the periscope might be John F. Walling, who was lost in April 1945 while commanding USS Snook.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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Image posted 11 February 2008