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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 89373

Japanese Midget Submarine Base, Okinawa


Under attack by U.S. Navy carrier planes prior to the Invasion of Okinawa, circa March 1945.
Two m1dget submarines and several camouflaged motor torpedo boats are in the lower left center. Other midget submarines and a small "Sea Truck" cargo vessel are visible at the edge of the bomb explosion area.
Photograph was released by Commander in Chief, Pacific, on 24 March 1945.

Courtesy of Robert O. Baumrucker, 1978.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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15 February 2000