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  • Missing U.S. WW II sub found by film crew

    03/30/2010 10:42:49 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 34 replies · 1,559+ views
    UPI ^ | 3/30/2010 | UPI
    Toronto television production company says it has located the wreckage of a missing U.S. submarine that was sunk in 1944 in the South China Sea. In a news release, yap films said the U.S. Navy had confirmed the wreck they found was the World War II submarine USS Flier (SS 25) that sank and was lost since Aug. 13, 1944. The Flier was a 1,525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Conn., and went into service in October 1943. Of the 86 men aboard when the vessel hit a mine, 14 escaped, but only eight survived the swim to Palawan...