USS Swordfish (SS-193)
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USS Swordfish, a Sargo-class submarine, was the first submarine of the United States Navy named for the swordfish, a large fish with a long, swordlike beak and a high dorsal fin. She was the first Ame
Swordfish in 1939
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Swordfish Memorial at Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota
Ryukyu Islands
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The Ryukyu Islands, also known as the Nansei Islands or the Ryukyu Arc, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. Administratively, they are divided between Kagoshi
USS Swordfish (SS-193)
…her twelfth patrol at Pearl Harbor on 30 June. On 22 December, Swordfish departed Pearl Harbor to conduct her thirteenth war patrol, in the vicinity of Nansei Shoto. She topped off with fuel at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on 26 December and left that day for her area. In addition to her regular…
Location of the Ryukyu Islands
The last sunset in Japan is seen from Yonaguni.
Okinawa Islands during the Sanzan Period
Ryukyu delegates in Ten Thousand Nations Coming to Pay Tribute (1761), which depicts foreign delegations in Beijing