Posted on 03/30/2010 10:42:49 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Toronto television production company says it has located the wreckage of a missing U.S. submarine that was sunk in 1944 in the South China Sea.
In a news release, yap films said the U.S. Navy had confirmed the wreck they found was the World War II submarine USS Flier (SS 25) that sank and was lost since Aug. 13, 1944.
The Flier was a 1,525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Conn., and went into service in October 1943. Of the 86 men aboard when the vessel hit a mine, 14 escaped, but only eight survived the swim to Palawan in the Philippines.
The sub was found at a depth of 330 feet by the father and son dive team of Mike and Warren Fletcher, who star in the "Dive Detectives" series that airs on The History Channel in Canada and the National Geographic channel elsewhere.
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Official Photograph of the USS Flier (SS-250)
How does anyone escape from a submerged sub that’s hit a mine?
Off Palawan, Philippines? Been there. Mostly the region is a diver’s paradise. I heard stories from the locals where the japanese would hide out when McArthur returned and they dug into the beaches.
Probably it was near the surface, and came up allowing some to escape from the conning tower, or else split open and some floated to the surface.
Thats a better photo
My Grandfather [USNA Class of ‘23] was stationed on the S-51, which sunk off of Block Island in 1925 after colliding with a commercial ship “City Of Rome”. It sank in minutes.
However, by sheer luck, he was not on the duty roster that night [they had rotating duty rosters selected each day alphabetically] - having missed the cut by four names.
Anyway, about five sailors got out - of which only three survived.
God rest those brave men who gave their all for us.
Navy family ping
Be interesting to know the story of who & why the woman is in this picture.
I did work on the Sculpin as it was being commissioned at Pascagoula, MS. in the early 60’s. Ingalls built the Barb, Dace, Snook and Sculpin in those heady days of the shipyard in Pascagoula.
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