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Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer Discovered off Remote Alaskan Island by NOAA-Supported Scientists

By NOAA on Aug 16, 2018   At Sea, Featured, National, National/World  

Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer Discovered off Remote Alaskan Island by NOAA-Supported Scientists

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 off by an explosion while conducting an anti-submarine patrol. Seventy-one U.S. Navy Sailors were lost in the aftermath of the blast, […]

Human-Powered Torpedo on an Alaska Island

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Oct 25, 2015   Featured, Southwest Alaska  

Human-Powered Torpedo on an Alaska Island

On a damp island far out in the Aleutian chain, a secret weapon of Japan’s World War II Navy sinks into the sod. A Type-A midget submarine the shape of a killer whale was one of six the Japanese carried to Kiska Island in 1942. Debra Corbett, an archaeologist who spent five weeks on Kiska […]

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