The most productive submarine of the United States of World War II was found (photo)

It is believed that this submarine drown the most Japanese warships in the Pacific. Almost 80 years after flooding in the South China Sea, the participants of the LOST 52 Navy found a USS Harder submarine. It was flooded as a result of a Japanese deep bomb explosion on August 29, 1944 near Luson Island (the largest island of the Philippine Archipelago, writes Interesting Engineering. In focus. Technology.

It is believed that the US submarine USS HARDER, which began its combat route in December 1942, drown the most Japanese warships in the Pacific during the Second World War. Waving, to change their plans for hostilities in the Pacific. Surveying three of them. But it was this military operation that was the last for the USS HARDER and it was flooded by the Japanese ship CD-22 on the morning of August 24, 1944.

The three torpedoes of the ship did not hit the boat, but the deep bomb led to the flooding of the American submarine. It happened in the South Chinese Sea near the Philippine Island. There were 79 crew members on board the boat, who received several important American awards during the fighting. As part of the LOST 52 US Navy, which aims to search for 52 submarines flooded during World War II, the USS HARDER was detected at a depth of about 914 meters.

The boat stood vertically on the keel and was relatively intact, if not taken into account from damage from the deep bomb. As focus has already wrote, last year, scientists found a fragments of another American submarine near the Japanese island of Hokkaido, which was one of the most effective during the Second World War. Focus also wrote that archaeologists found three unique tombs of Han Empire in China, and one was not looted.