BLASTED-AWAY SHIP STERN DISCOVERED IN ALEUTIANS
THE SHIP WAS SAVED. But its 75-foot stern sank in the pitch-black, fog-shrouded waters off the Aleutians, lost along with 70 men.
Nearly 75 years later, scientists from the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the on July 17. It was in 290 feet of water off Kiska, an Aleutian island seized by Japan in 1942 in an often-overlooked World War II campaign.
