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Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer Discovered Off Remote Alaskan Island by NOAA-supported Scientists (Video)

USS Abner stern
Coral-encrusted USS Abner Read stern wreckage. (Courtesy of Project Recover)
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 17, 2018
Contacts: Theo Stein, NOAA, Robert Monroe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Andrea Boyle, University of Delaware, and Paul Taylor, Naval History and Heritage Command

For almost 75 years, the stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it sank after being torn…

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