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USS Blenny SS-324
                                                                                   Qual Boat   1962-1964

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My first submarine shown in Guppy IA Configuration
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On USS Blenny - Northern Run1963 Early Dec.1963 - Northern Run. 
My photo taken in Forward Torpedo Room by
BigDog Foltz TM2(SS).
Brit sub sweater: Bought two ($9 each) in 
Portsmouth, England. Still wearable and now
passed along to my kids.

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Crew's mess. RBO (a radio) in background. Our major news source on 22 Nov. 1963 and after. Both Voice of America and Moscow English language stations. (Photo by Bill Thirtle; Blenny in '50s)
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More about listening to the RBO and other means of "Banishing Boredom" by Dex Armstrong (USS Requin)
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The SpecOp aka "The Northern Run" 
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The Wet Cold War [ Copy from 1997 via VFW Mag ]
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Bluenose 
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Jim Albertin's Blenny in the 1950s
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Frank's WWII Blenny Memory Page.
An Outstanding Page  (Now archived on SubmarineSailor.com)
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MoonLight Serenade (MIDI format)
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Blenny*** (5 April 1944) Launch at Electric Boat
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Blenny*** In Her Fleet Boat Configuration...WWII
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Blenny*** With PUFF  Mounts
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Blenny's*** Patches
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World War II Links 
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Blenny History (via Neal Stevens' DEEP DOMAIN
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Boats of the 8-BALL Sqd.  New London 
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Main Gate Submarine Base
(passed along from Ron Martini)
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Marty Schultz's pictures of BLENNY and other diesel
boats from the 1950s: New London, Bermuda, NYC etc.
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What's a GUPPY? Find out here
(Paul Roggemann's USS Sea Robin page) 
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Bozo: The Blenny dog. In early '60s
(and other stories) 
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Blenny's Final Dive (7 June 1989)
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A poem in tribute to the USS BLENNY
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Status of  SS - 324 via The NAVAL VESSEL REGISTRY
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SHOWERS - A Tom Lewis song about Diesel Boats
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Blenny***(1948) Coming into Esquimalt, BC.
Operations with the Canadians. (Canadian photograper)
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Ron Linderman's BLENNY pictures (1966-1969)
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WWII tonnage record
via Ric Hedman's "Through The Looking Glass"
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A brief history (in PDF format) of BLENNY.    by Frank Toon
***PICS COURTESY OF FRANK TOON

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