Another wreck found - USS Grayback (SS-208)

[timjake]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/world-war-two-submarine-wreck-discovered-75-years-after-sinking

No doubt it's Grayback, one of the pictures shows the builders plate that reads "USS Grayback."

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"The wreck of World War II submarine USS Grayback has been discovered off Japan 75 years after its sinking by a Japanese bomber.

The submarine was found on June 5, by the Lost 52 Project, which locates lost U.S. World War II submarines. In a statement translated from Japanese, the Lost 52 Project explained that the USS Grayback (SS-208) is the first U.S. submarine discovered off the coast of Japan.

Japanese records indicate that the sub was sunk by a 500-pound bomb dropped by a naval bomber in February 1944. The bomb hit aft of the Grayback's conning tower and the sub sank with the loss of her 80-strong crew..."

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video:
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[pineappleshooter]

RIP shipmates. Glad the families got some closure.

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[Chuck24]

One little mistranslation and you're off by a hundred miles

 

[mauser9]

Thanks for the info.

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Kudos to the Lost 52 Project for their efforts in trying to locate and identify the remains for the 52 U.S. Navy submarines lost/sunk in WWII. I think to date 7 have been found, 5 locations are definitely unknown and the group is working diligently to track the final resting place of those remaining.

 

[mauser9]

Read we lost 52 subs during the war. Nice when they locate them. Might give surviving family members some closure.

 

[muddocktor]

I just went to the Lost 52 website and they list 9 subs lost during the war that have been found and 5 of them they attribute to their efforts.

I hope this brings closure to the descendants of the crew of this sub.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I wonder how many of those crews would not have been lost if the Navy Ordinance Department had fixed the torpedo problem earlier.