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Three pieces of a Japanese submarine found where the Navy dumped its own disaster's evidence
Three pieces of a Japanese submarine found where the Navy dumped its own disaster's evidence
The discovery of three pieces of a Japanese Ko-hyoteki midget submarine among the wreckage of the West Loch disaster adds a chilling new layer to a calamity the Navy kept secret for 16 years - and the Navy still has no official record explaining how those parts got there. How did enemy submarine remains end up mixed with six sunken LSTs that burned, sank, and were partly removed by salvage crews?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the afternoon of May 21, 1944 to the divers’ 2002 find to…
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