Good catch there, Dave. You're right it doesn't look like Dutch Harbor at all and most likely Milne Bay. That would put the time of the picture and the one immediately above it to any time from 19 March 1944 onwards.
Those two S-18 boats are indeed a mystery. The longest a "20-something" S boat remained in combat service was the ill-fated S-28, which terminated her last patrol in October 1943, yet she eventually went on to Pearl. I've not read of anything that says she put in training time at Milne Bay. We'll probably never know the ID of those two boats, sadly.
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