Was it a submarine or a whale? If it was a submarine, was it Japanese or Russian?
The WW2 Submarine Mystery endures.
An article in The Vancouver Sun, published Monday, August 18, 2008, recounts a rare ww2 submarine sighting and attack near Canadian waters in 1942. An RCAF bomber crew patrolling the area sighted what appeared to be a submarine about 130 miles northwest of British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands.
They claim certain damage by single 500 pound bomb, followed up by a thorough depth charging by surface patrol boats. Debris and fuel were spotted on the surface and the target was listed as destroyed. The mystery is… whose sub was it?
It was originally thought to be the Japanese submarine RO-32, but this boat turned up intact after the war. The U.S. lost no boats in the area, so the next thought is that it was Russian. But what would the Russians be doing there unannounced? Were they spying on us already in 1942?
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