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On October 24, 1944, during World War II, the USS Tang sank off the coast of China. The submarine was destroyed by its own ...
An expedition to test a new seafloor mapping technology has given the world a startlingly clear image of a World War II Japanese submarine that split in half when the U.S. sunk all captured Japanese ...
It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...
The USS Albacore (SS-218) was lost at sea Nov. 7, 1944, after striking a mine. Last month, naval historians confirmed the World War II submarine's wreck site off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan. The site ...
Early in World War II, Japanese forces sank the USS Wahoo submarine with 79 men on board. Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, the Pacific Fleet Submarine Force commander, demanded retaliation. However, the ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - After nearly eight decades, several local families are getting a sense of closure after the Navy confirmed a long lost WWII submarine was found off the coast of Japan. Judy Swink ...
The Naval History and Heritage Command confirmed the identity of a wreck site off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, as the USS Albacore (SS-218), which sunk in 1944. Naval History and Heritage Command The ...
The long-lost wreckage of a U.S. Navy submarine credited with sinking nearly a dozen enemy ships during World War II before vanishing in late 1944 has been found off the coast of northern Japan, Navy ...
The wreckage of a U.S. submarine from World War II was found off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan — after disappearing almost 80 years ago. The USS Albacore, credited with sinking at least 10 ...
WASHINGTON - The wreckage of a U.S. submarine found off the coast of northern Japan has been identified as the USS Albacore – a vessel believed by the Navy to have struck a mine and sunk during the ...