Seventy-one American servicemen disappeared into Alaska’s frigid waters when the USS Abner Read hit a Japanese mine on August 18, 1943. For nearly 75 years, their final resting place remained unknown.
In this July 18, 2018 photo provided by Project Recover, a Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) glides away from a research boat before diving beneath the surface where it spent the next six ...
The USS Abner Read had finished one leg of its anti-submarine patrol and was turning to start the next. Off the shore of Kiska, in Alaska's Aleutian chain, the sea was calm, and the moon could be ...
A team of researchers in Alaska this summer found the stern of the USS Abner Read, which sank after hitting a Japanese mine in 1943. Project Recover searches for the stern of the USS Abner Read near ...