Submarines against the Japanese, 1944

A double page spread in The Sphere, 1944, entitled "Submarines against the Japs: British underwater craft operating in the Far East." On the left hand page, a torpedo is shown being loaded through a special hatch on the deck, as well as an aerial view of the conning tower. The adjacent page shows a dramatic rescue at Sabang in Sumara, drawn by Montague Dawson, where a British submarine surfaced to rescue a crashed Allied fighter plane in the midst of a Japanese bombardment. Date: 1944

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