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English: USS Swordfish (SS-193) - Ready for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 1 April 1939.

This is the earliest known color Official Navy Photograph that can be precisely dated.

Photo #: 80-G-K-13791 (Color)
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Source http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/ss193.htm
Author Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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1 April 1939

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