On June 4, 1944, off Cape Blanco, Africa, the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), in company with five destroyer escorts, forced the German submarine U-505 to surface. Boarding parties on boats from Pillsbury ( DE-133) and Guadalcanal secured the
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Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Headquarters in Annapolis, MD.

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