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09 Dec 2019 9:47 p.m. PST

"The US navy officially verified the discovery on Tuesday after a team dedicated to surveying lost submarines made the find off the coast of Okinawa in June.

The USS Grayback went down in the East China Sea during its 10th patrol mission in February 1944 and, according to Japanese reports, "exploded and sank immediately".

But a translation error in 1946 placed the submarine 160km from its true final location…"

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