October 23, 2014 – A German submarine that sank 72 years ago has been found resting on the ocean floor just 240 yards from the merchant ship it torpedoed 30 miles off Cape Hatteras. In July 1942, U-576 attacked an Allied convoy heading to Florida from Virginia. An armed merchant ship counterattacked using its deck gun and U.S. naval aircraft bombed the U-boat, sinking her in minutes. The 45 sailors on board the German vessel perished. The crew of the sunk merchant ship all survived.
Link: CNN
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