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FM-1 aircraft having crashed into several TBF aircraft while landing on the flight deck of USS Coral Sea, 11 Oct 1943, photo 3 of 3	Photo showing a US Navy Mark 24 FIDO acoustic homing torpedo just entering the water. The torpedo can be seen beginning its track toward a submerged submarine. Mid-Atlantic, 12 Oct 1943.

Action Report filed by TBF Avenger pilots LtCdr Howard Avery and Ens Barton Sheela flying from USS Card documenting their attack on German U-402 in the mid-Atlantic, 13 Oct 1943. Page 1 of 3.	Action Report filed by TBF Avenger pilots LtCdr Howard Avery and Ens Barton Sheela flying from USS Card documenting their attack on German U-402 in the mid-Atlantic, 13 Oct 1943. Page 2 of 3.

Action Report filed by TBF Avenger pilots LtCdr Howard Avery and Ens Barton Sheela flying from USS Card documenting their attack on German U-402 in the mid-Atlantic, 13 Oct 1943. Page 3 of 3.	Photo of the German submarine U-402 on the surface of the mid-Atlantic while under attack from US Navy LtCdr Howard Avery’s TBF Avenger flying from USS Card, 13 Oct 1943.

Photo showing a US Navy Mark 24 FIDO acoustic homing torpedo just entering the water. The torpedo can be seen beginning its track toward a submerged submarine. Mid-Atlantic, 13 Oct 1943.	Canberra underway, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 1 of 4

Canberra underway, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 2 of 4	Canberra underway, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 3 of 4

Canberra underway, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 14 Oct 1943, photo 4 of 4	Damaged TBF Avenger aboard USS Coral Sea, 14 Oct 1943; it had crashed into a line of TBF aircraft during landing three days prior

Kikuzuki after being salvage by the US Navy, Ghovana Bay, Florida Islands, 14 Oct 1943; photographed by US Navy 34th Construction Battalion	USS Franklin being floated out of drydock for the first time, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 14 Oct 1943. Note Navy WAVES on the dock; WAVES' Director, LtCdr Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, was Franklin's sponsor.

Commissioning ceremony of USS Tang, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 15 Oct 1943	Officers of USS Tang shortly after commissioning, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 15 Oct 1943

Postcard commemorating the commissioning of USS Tang, 15 Oct 1943	Two wrecked Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 17 Oct 1943, photo 1 of 2

Two wrecked Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 17 Oct 1943, photo 2 of 2	USS Young underway in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 18 Oct 1943