USS Wahoo
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USS
Wahoo was a Gato class submarine laid down by Mare Island
Naval Shipyard in San Fransisco in June 1941. She was
launched in February 1942 and entered service in the US
Navy three months later. She completed six war patrols,
credited with sinking four enemy ships. On her seventh
patrol she was spotted and attacked by Japanese airplanes
and ships 11.October 1943 and sunk north of Japan.
Attempts to located the wreck started in the 1990's, and
the wreck was finally found in 2005 in the La Perouse
strait on a depth of 65 meter.
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 Picture: USS Wahoo Courtesy of U.S Navy, Public domain Last updated: July 2018 |
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