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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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Russo-Japanese War - Conning Tower

Russo-Japanese War - Conning Tower - Conning Tower. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy

WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy. The largest submarine ever built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1943. Classified as an "undersea cruiser" by sources of her time. She carried a Besson MB.411 observation floatplane in a hangar built abaft of the conning tower - photoraph taken circa 1936 (the radio masts were removed by 1938). Date: circa 1936

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