This is how a German U-Boat first appeared to the eyes of Lt. Wallace LaFleur of Lafayette, Louisiana during his patrol in April 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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429.Photograph. 'File No: 209582 April 25, 1944 Navy planes sink U-Boat in two minutes! Cutting through the waters of the Atlantic, this is how a U-Boat first appeared to the eyes of Lt. (jg) Wallace A. LaFleur, USNR, of Lafayette, La. [Louisiana] As he patrolled his 'best' while providing aerial escort for a convoy.' 25 April 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Submarines--German
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