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A veteran of the Pacific War, this Balao class submarine was ideally suited to experiments with helicopters loaded with Marines. The U.S. Navy from operating at least one helicopter from a submarine, during a remarkable series of trials aboard the in the mid-1950s.
The submarine chosen for the exercise was the Balao class USS Sealion. This had originally been commissioned in March 1944 and was famously responsible for being the only submarine to sink a Japanese battleship during World War II, the Kongo, which was sent to the bottom of the sea in the Formosa Strait in November 1944.
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The submarine chosen for the exercise was the Balao class USS Sealion. This had originally been commissioned in March 1944 and was famously responsible for being the only submarine to sink a Japanese battleship during World War II, the Kongo, which was sent to the bottom of the sea in the Formosa Strait in November 1944.
USS Sealion Was The Navy’s Unique Helicopter-Accommodating Submarine
A veteran of the Pacific War, this Balao class submarine was ideally suited to experiments with helicopters loaded with Marines.
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