USS Diodon (SS-349) WestPac 1967
By: James R. Santos 
on Diodon - TMSN(SG) to TM3(SS)

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Here is TM3(SS) Kertz in Tubes Aft, working on the same Stanchion that Stanley Swedbloom was wrapping up.

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This is in the After Torpedo Room while submerged on our 55 day patrol. Kertz was one of several Tubes Aft crew.  Wally Levander, who qualified along with me, a SN(SS), and Bill Perry, TM3(SS), rounded out the team.

Tubes Aft and Tubes Forward had an informal who's better thing going.  Tubes Forward is usually taken as the top dog, while Tubes Aft is more taken as the dog's tail.  Never really deserved, such titles are.  We all did our work well.