The wreck of one of the U.S. Navy's most historic World War II submarines has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last voyage, the U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command announced Thursday (May 23). The USS Harder, CNN reports, is 900 meters deep off the northern Philippine island of Luzon, upright and intact except for damage behind its control tower. Harder was lost in action on 24 August 1944, along with her entire crew of 79, while on war patrol as the US attempted to retake the Philippines from Japanese occupation forces. She sank two Japanese escort ships off the Bataan Peninsula and then headed north along the Luzon coast with two other submarines in search of more targets. In a battle with the Japanese escort ship CD-22 on the morning of 24 August, Harder fired three torpedoes that missed […]
Source: News Beast
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