Name This...(157)

[Brady]

???

[UncleBuck]

Looks like a Tambor Class Submarine. Either a 3 or 4inch gun forward, not structure to Conning tower.

UB

[Mike Scholl]

It's a submarine. Photo taken by someone who forgot to remove the green filter from his lens.

[Brausepaul]

From this perspective it looks very similiar to a German Typ IX uboat, especially the conning tower.

[m10bob]

U.S.sailors manning U-505 just after it's capture?
The guy 2nd from the left is arguing about how much to charge at the cotton candy consession when it gets to Chicago's Museum of Science and Natural History!..
(The guy next to him wants his sunglasses back).

[Rendova]

Its a type IX uboat, it has the flat deck, but the U-505 had a big American flag on it after capture ( a very nice idea when you were manning a U-boat in the Atlantic ) My guess being that Brady always manages to find the neatest photos, that this is a picture of a type IX that was loaned to the IJN or was used as a courier between Genrmany and Japan. Actually didn't Japan build a few typr IXs?

[Tiornu]

The Japanese didn't build any German subs, but the following Type IX's did enter Japanese service: U181,195,862,511,1224 became I501,506,502 and RO500,501.

[DrewMatrix]

After that picture was taken, when they fished the camera out of the ocean, do you think they fished out the camera man as well?

I don't see any guard rails or anything and that boat looks to be tipping a bit.

[Oliver Heindorf]

A real sea man dont need a guard rail [;)]

[Brady]

Type IX, it is[:)]

It is, U-177.

Type IXD2 to be exact.





Pictures taken in the Indian Ocean, one of several Boats sent to Penang, though I can not find specific details shwoing this boat actual went their, she did patrole and sink ships in the Indian Ocean.

Cool Links:

http://uboat.net/men/gysae.htm

http://home.wxs.nl/~jviss000/Uboats.htm

http://uboat.net/boats/u177.htm


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Thanks Rendova[:)]