USS Balao
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USS Balao was the lead ship of the United States Navy's Balao-class submarines during World War II and named for the balao, a small schooling marine fish.
Wikimedia, Wikidata
AGSS-285; SS-285; SS-285; SS/AGSS-285
United States Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard,
- Drachinifel page@
Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
1943-02-04T00:00:00Z
1943-02-04T00:00:00Z
ship commissioning
1942-10-27T00:00:00Z
1942-10-27T00:00:00Z
ship launching
1946-08-20T00:00:00Z
1946-08-20T00:00:00Z
ship decommissioning
1963-07-11T00:00:00Z
1963-07-11T00:00:00Z
ship decommissioning
1952-03-04T00:00:00Z
1952-03-04T00:00:00Z
ship recommissioning
1942-06-26T00:00:00Z
1942-06-26T00:00:00Z
keel laying
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | Drachinifel page@ | Wikidata | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao;0828502 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao SS-285 at Guam | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balaos (AGSS-285) during exercise 1961 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao;0828512 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao (SS-285) at Mare Island, October 1944 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao (SS-285) launching | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao (SS-285) WWII battle flag | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balao SS-285 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | USS Balaos (SS-285) sail is painted pink | Commons | ||
| commons | image | US Navy 110808-N-WE887-089 John Love, a World War II veteran, tours the conning tower aboard USS Balao (SS 285) and the National Museum of the U.S | Commons | ||









