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Museum submarines in the United States. Indonesian Navy Submarine Monument. CB-20 midget submarine page. 1996 North Korean Gangneung submarine infiltration incident museum pictures and information. Picture and location of HA-51. Melaka Bandaraya Warisan Dunia Museum Submarine Melaka. Categories: Museum ships.
1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun [4] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The Gato class of submarines were built for the United States Navy and launched in 1941–1943. Named after the lead ship of the class, USS Gato, they were the first mass-production U.S. submarine class of World War II.
Balao-class submarine. Gato-class submarine. Mackerel-class submarine. United States O-class submarine. United States Porpoise-class submarine. United States R-class submarine. United States S-class submarine. Salmon-class submarine. Sargo-class submarine.
3,661 (1980) National President. Walter 'Gus' Krause. The United States Submarine Veterans of World War II is a congressionally chartered veterans organization that was established to "perpetuate the memory of those shipmates who gave their lives in submarine warfare" [1] during World War II .
The USS Tang. With 116,454 tons sunk, the USS Tang sank the most tonnage of shipping in World War II for the United States. Its tonnage was revised from the Joint Army–Navy Assessment Committee (JANAC) report, which initially credited Tang with fewer sinkings. (93,824 tons and 24 ships) In 1980, the relevant JANAC section was officially ...
1989 [4] U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. It was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and survives as a museum ship in Chicago . In her unlucky career, it had the distinction of being the "most heavily damaged U-boat to successfully return to port" in World War II, suffering ...
United States Submarine Operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe is a classic history of the role of the United States Navy submarines in World War II, earning him the title of "grandfather" of World War II American Submarine historiography. [1] Because the book was written shortly after the war, later scholars have found errors or ...
24 torpedoes [4] 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun [4] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The Balao class was a design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 120 [2] boats completed, the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy. An improvement on the earlier Gato class, the boats had slight ...