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80-G-227987 USS Tang (SS-306)

Photo #: 80-G-227987 USS Tang (SS-306)
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Description: The submarine's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Richard H. O'Kane (center), poses with the twenty-two aircrewmen that Tang rescued off Truk during the carrier air raids there on 29 April-1 May 1944. The photograph was taken upon Tang's return to Pearl Harbor from her second war patrol, in May 1944. Those present are identified in Photo # 80-G-227987 (complete caption). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-227987
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