Monday, October 13, 2008

A Submarine of World War 2 Found

USS Grunion was a Gato-Class submarine that was sunk at Kiska, Alaska during World War-2. The specialty of Gato-Class submarines was that they were specially designed to aid US during the World war. They were very strong and have a record f sinking around 1,700,000 tons of Japanese shipping. Grunion started its services from 22 December 1941. Just in a week it helped US in rescuing 16 survivors of USAT jack, which had been torpedoed by a German U-boat. It also conducted a fruitless search for 13 other survivors presumed in the vicinity. Grunion received a battle star for WWII service. One day US Navy lost Grunion without any trace. They never had any clue on what happened to it.

Recently, US Navy was reported to have found a wreckage of a sunken vessel. When they started trying to find about the vessel, they came to it is nothing but the great Grunion. It has appeared after so many years of its mysterious vanish in a poor condition under waters of Bering Sea, about 1000 meters beneath. The reason for her sinking is still a mystery.

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