Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Battlefield at sea: WW2 U-boat found with ship it sank off North Carolina

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Top: Bluefields sonar image. Bottom: U-576 sonar image.
Top: Bluefields sonar image. Bottom: U-576 sonar image. 

Two sunken ships from World War II -- a German U-boat and an American merchant vessel -- have been found deep in the ocean off the coast of North Carolina, officials said Tuesday.
The ships clashed in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1942 and were lost for more than seven decades in an area known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
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The discovery of the German U-boat 576 (pictured below) and the freighter Bluefields offers "a rare window into a historic military battle and the underwater battlefield landscape of WWII," NOAA said.
The ships were found 240 yards apart.


Crew of the German U-boat 576 on the deck of their submarine 

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