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Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum tells story of Navy submarining

By Craig T. Kojima

Feb. 16, 2021

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Chuck Merkel, executive director, stands next to a submarine torpedo. The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum, a $20 million, 13,000-square-foot USS Bowfin submarine museum, opened Monday with a new name and striking look that charts the course of Navy undersea duty from the loss of the F4’s 21 hands off Honolulu in 1915 up through the newest $6.5 billion Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.
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James and Asha Pumarada, visted the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum with family members on Tuesday.
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An early photo shows the crew of the USS Bowfin.
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Leighton, left and Reed Schwab, visiting from Seattle, play on a submarine.
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A model of the USS Bowfin is on display.
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Tate Struve and son, Hunter Struve, from Wisconsin, celebrated the younger Struve’s birthday on a mock-up of a control room of a submarine. In the background is a Poseidon C-3 warhead.
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Charles Hinman, left, education director, and Sarah Bellian, curator, are shown with educational exhibits at the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum.
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The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum reflects the goal of telling the wider story of Navy submarining beyond the resident Bowfin, nicknamed the “Pearl Harbor Avenger.”

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