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The U.S. Navy submarine USS Albacore, lost and on eternal patrol for 79 years, has finally been found. The missing and presumed-lost sub was discovered off the coast of northern Japan by a team ...
PORTSMOUTH – Albacore Park will present its annual Navy History Day on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year’s theme is, “Brave Men in Iron Tubes: The Search for USS Albaco ...
Days before Christmas that same year, the Navy assumed the Albacore, along with at least 85 sailors onboard, were lost at sea, including Bower’s father, Lt. William Walter Bower. “My mother ...
Six of the Albacore's enemy sinkings were enemy combat ships, making the vessel one of World War II's top combat submarines, according to the Navy.
The location of the ship’s wreckage appeared to confirm those details, according to the Navy. Before the sub’s sinking, the Albacore had proved a capable warship. The vessel was built by the ...
Carano trained at Navy Pier in Chicago and graduated from submarine school in Groton, Connecticut, around March 1944. Carano was assigned to the USS Albacore, a 311-foot, Gato-class submarine ...
Naval History and Heritage Command The wreckage of a U.S. submarine found off the coast of northern Japan has been identified as the USS Albacore – a vessel believed by the Navy to have struck a ...
Pasquale Charles Carracino, of Newark, N.J., was among 85 submariners lost in 1944 when the Groton-built USS Albacore hit a mine off Japan's Hokkaido Island. The men were honored Saturday at the ...