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USN Ships--USS Sealion (SS-195) (563 words) |
 | She was commissioned in late November 1939 and, in the spring of 1940, deployed to the Far East to strengthen the defenses of the Philippines as relations with Japan deteriorated. |
| The remains of the Post Office are in the left foreground, and the bomb-damaged submarine USS Sealion (SS-195) lies across the center of the image. |
| Sealion had been fatally damaged by Japanese bombs on 10 December 1941 and was scuttled on 25 December, before U.S. forces abandoned Cavite. |
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