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Photo #: NH 96499

USS PT-564


Underway at high speed in 1943-45. At the time of this photograph, she had been fitted experimentally with a pair of twin .50 caliber machineguns forward, in addition to her normal armament of four Mark XIII torpedoes, two .50 caliber twins in the superstructure and a single 20mm gun aft.
This experimental boat ran extensive trials, but the design was not further produced.

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

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16 March 2001