Photos Taken in Connecticut | World War II Database

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Submarine Growler at the fitting out piers at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 30 Dec 1941. Note Growler’s extended mine cutting gear above the suspended wooden planks.	Officers at US Naval Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut, United States, Feb 1942	Albacore being towed to dock shortly after launching, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 17 Feb 1942	USS Albacore in Measure 9 camouflage, off Groton, Connecticut, United States, 9 May 1942

Electric Boat workers preparing submarine Harder for launching, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 19 Aug 1942	Laying the keel of submarine Dorado, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 27 Aug 1942	Five P-47Bs of the newly formed 61st Fighter Squadron in a training flight over Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States, Sep-Oct 1942. Plane #1 is flown by 56th Fighter Group Commander Hub Zemke. Photo 1 of 2.	Five P-47Bs of the newly formed 61st Fighter Squadron in a training flight over Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States, Sep-Oct 1942. Plane #1 is flown by 56th Fighter Group Commander Hub Zemke. Photo 2 of 2.

Launching of submarine Bluefish, Croton, Connecticut, United States, 21 Feb 1943	Submarine Bluefish shortly after launching, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 21 Feb 1943	Near-finished F4U Corsair fighter at the Chance-Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut, United States, Mar 1943	Submarines Bonefish, Cod, Cero, and Corvina under construction at the Electric Boat Co. yard, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 7 Mar 1943

Launching of USS Corvina at the Electric Boat Company yard, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 9 Mar 1943	Launching of submarine Cero, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 4 Apr 1943	Keel laying ceremony of submarine Bergall, Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 13 May 1943	Future commander of Dorado Earle C. Schneider at the launching ceremony with his son Earle V. 'Butch' Schneider (far left), his father Earle G. Schneider (second from left), and his mother (far right), Groton, Connecticut, United States, 23 May 1943

Launching of submarine Dorado, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 23 May 1943	Submarine Bergall under construction, Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, circa mid-1943	Submarine USS Dace (left) at her commissioning, New London, Connecticut, United States, 23 Jul 1943.	Man working on hull of US submarine at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, Aug 1943