Russians Find (possibly) wreck of USS Wahoo

Russians Find Wreckage of U.S. Submarine

Friday August 18, 2006 1:01 AM

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian divers have spotted the wreckage of a legendary U.S. submarine that was lost in the Pacific in 1943, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.

The ITAR-Tass news agency said that a diving team from the Far Eastern State Technological University in Vladivostok found the USS Wahoo in the La Perouse Strait and took pictures of it during a recent expedition. It didn't give further details.



Under the command of Dudley ``Mush'' Morton, the Wahoo became one of the most famous U.S. submarines of World War II. With 19 Japanese ships sunk, Morton was ranked as one of the war's top three sub skippers.

The Wahoo was sunk by the Japanese navy as it returned from its seventh patrol on Oct. 11, 1943. All 79 crewmen died.

Nifty little news item for the day. For more on the Wahoo and other WW2 era submarines, I can't recommend this page highly enough: http://www.mackinnon.org (see the sub pages for the Waco and other US subs from the time period).