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Apogon (SS-308) slides down the launching ways at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME., 10 March 1943. |
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org |
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Apogon's (SS-308) officers and crew alongside the conning tower as she heads towards dock at Submarine Base 5. |
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org |
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Apogon's (SS-308) officers and crew alongside the conning tower as she heads towards dock at Submarine Base 5. |
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org |
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Apogon's (SS-308) officers and crew alongside the conning tower as she heads towards dock at Submarine Base 5. |
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org |
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Apogon (SS-308), aside of the Rescue and Salvage Ship Deliver (ARS-23), circa 1944. |
Submitted by Bill Bach to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors, courtesy of Gary Priolo. |
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Starboard view of the Apogon (SS-308) pulling into port somewhere alongside a boat from LST 521. |
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of John Hummel. |
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Installing a bearing ring on a 5" gun aboard a submarine, possibly the Apogon (SS-308), at an advanced base, circa 1945. |
Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 080-G-468222, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), by Lt. Comdr. Horace Bristol, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
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Stern view of Apogon (SS-308) departing Mare Island on 15 April 1945. |
U.S. Navy Photo # 2718-45, courtesy of Darryl Baker. |
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Broadside view of Apogon (SS-308) off Mare Island on 15 April 1945. She was in overhaul at Mare Island from 15 Jan to 3 May 1945.
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U.S. Navy Photo # 2720-45, courtesy of Darryl Baker. |
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Bow on view of Apogon (SS-308) departing Mare Island on 15 April 1945. |
U.S. Navy Photo # 2722-45, courtesy of Darryl Baker. |
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Broadside view of Apogon (SS-308) off Mare Island on 15 April 1945. |
U.S. Navy Photo # 2721-45, courtesy of Darryl Baker. The photo is off a negative from the Vallejo Naval Historic Museum. Photo added 03/31/07.
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Apogon (SS-308), undergoes comprehensive remote control tests prior to her role in "Operation Crossroads", June 1946. Widgeon (ARS-1) stands by in the background. |
US National Archives photo # 80-G-702799, from DANFS, now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy of Joe Radigan, MACM, USN Ret. |
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Apogon (SS-308), in lower left rim of the Atomic blast, meets her fate in "Operation Crossroads", June 1946. A 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons effects test, (Event Baker) conducted at Bikini Atoll (1946). |
Official U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of dtra.mil. Photo added 03/31/07.
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Apogon (SS-308) on the bottom of Bikini Atoll. |
Photo by H. P. Schmid, courtesy of tcwfb.ch. & bikiniatoll.com. Photo added 03/31/07.
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Apogon (SS-308) on the bottom of Bikini Atoll. |
Photo by Eric Hanauer, courtesy of tcwfb.ch. & bikiniatoll.com. Photo added 03/31/07.
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