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| Legendary US submarine, sunk in 1944, found near the Philippines |
| 2024-05-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] One of the legendary submarines of the Second World War, the American submarine Harder, was discovered at the bottom of the South China Sea. This was reported by Business Insider with reference to the archaeological department of the US Naval History and Heritage Administration (NHHC). USS Harder, known for its daring attacks on the Japanese fleet, was sunk on August 24, 1944, off the coast of the Philippines. The crew was commanded by officer Samuel Deeley, who was called the "destroyer killer". It is noted that only the conning tower on the submarine was damaged, otherwise the ship is intact. The discovery of the boat at a depth of 1140 m was reported by participants in the Lost 52 project, dedicated to the search for 52 American submarines that sank during the war. The archaeological department explained that it is difficult to identify submarines, but the USS Harder is perfectly preserved. The Lost 52 team collected detailed data using photogrammetry technology and underwater robots. The Gato-class diesel-electric submarine USS Harder (SS-257) began construction in December 1941. In the spring of 1943, she began combat duty at the Pearl Harbor base. The submarine went on six combat cruises, in one of them she sank three Japanese destroyers, and also destroyed or damaged two more. The submarine Harder went on its last voyage with another submarine, USS Hake. A team of 79 sailors discovered two Japanese ships in Dasol Bay in the northern Philippines and managed to fire three torpedoes before sinking as a result of enemy depth charges. The USS Hake managed to evade. At least six submarines were found by members of the Lost 52 project. They said that, out of respect for the families of the sailors, they announce finds only after they are fully confirmed. As Regnum reported, earlier in the United States they found a “cursed” ship that disappeared along with its crew in 1909 on Lake Superior. The wooden steamer Adella Shores set sail from Whitefish Point and ran into a storm. Its wreckage was found only in 2021. After this, experts studied numerous archival information and confirmed that the same ship had been discovered. In January 2023, British researchers identified the name of a warship whose wreckage was recovered off the coast of Great Britain in 2019. We are talking about the Dutch ship Klein Hollandia, built in 1656 and sank in 1672 as a result of a battle in the English Channel. Its wreckage was located at a depth of 32 meters near the city of Eastbourne. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, famous for his role as chief architect of the Peacetime Selective Service act. May was implicated in the leak of classified naval information, and later an unrelated conviction for bribery. May was a Democratic member of United States House of Representatives from Kentucky during the 72nd to 79th sessions of Congress. May was responsible for the release of highly confidential military information during World War II known as the May Incident. U.S. submarines had been conducting a successful undersea war against Japanese shipping during World War II, frequently escaping their anti-submarine depth charge attacks. May revealed the deficiencies of Japanese depth-charge tactics in a press conference held in June 1943 on his return from a war zone junket. At this press conference, he revealed the highly sensitive fact that American submarines had a high survival rate because Japanese depth charges were exploding at too shallow a depth. Various press associations sent this leaked news story over their wires and many newspapers published it, including one in Honolulu, Hawaii. After the news became public, Japanese naval antisubmarine forces began adjusting their depth charges to explode at a greater depth. Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, commander of the U.S. submarine fleet in the Pacific, estimated that May's security breach cost the United States Navy as many as 10 submarines and 800 crewmen killed in action. He said, "I hear Congressman May said the Jap depth charges are not set deep enough. He would be pleased to know that the Japs set them deeper now." |
| Posted by: Deacon+Blues 2024-05-26 12:01 |
| #2 ...A grim detail: one of the ships hunting Harder that day was the IJN's Patrol Boat 102. PB 102 started life as USS Stewart (DD-224), part of the doomed US Asiatic Fleet at the beginning of the war. She had done well but was seriously damaged during the retreat to Java. Stewart was drydocked there for repairs...but the yard crew botched the process, she fell off the blocks, and had to be abandoned. When the Japanese showed up, they couldn't resist the opportunity and repaired/recommissioned her. Somehow, PB102 survived the war to be recaptured and brought back to the states. She was sunk as a target off San Francisco in 1946. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-05-26 07:37 |
| #1 Still on patrol. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2024-05-26 06:44 |