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Sharks of the Pacific (1959)
aka Rekiny Pacyfiku
by Jan Piwowoncki

The United States Navy Gato-class submarine formed the core of the Submarine Service that was largely responsible for the destruction of the Japanese merchant marine and a large portion of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. Named after the first vessel of this design, USS Gato (SS-212), the Gato-class and its successors, the Balao and Tench classes, formed the majority of the United States Navy's WWII submarine fleet. Gato's name comes from a species of small catshark. Like most other U.S. Navy submarines of the period, the Gato-class were given the names of marine creatures. The one odd exception being USS Scorpion (SS-278)...

Publisher: Wydawnictwo Morskie 
First published: 1959
Language: Polish
Pages: 68
Format: PDF 
Size: 16 Mb
Many illustrations and pictures

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