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Originally Posted by Drebbel
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Originally Posted by NEON DEON
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The dutch have almost the same story but more detail on what happened to the sub.
10 July 1945: The attempt to pull O 19 free is repeated but without success once more, so the USS Cod takes O 19's crew on board and demolition charges are set on board the disabled submarine. The extremely secret radar and sonar is also destroyed. Two torpedoes are fired and destroy the aft, 16 shells of the 5-inch deck gun finishing off the job of denying her usefulness to the enemy. The USS Cod takes the crew to Subic Bay in the Philippines. |
You see, it was never sunk, it was stuck on a reef. They tried pulling it off, no go. They they destroyed the sub. Trying to sink something that is stuck on the bottom is simply impossible 
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PS. You cant see the letters of my last post from a grey a backround?
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Just select a different skin the the bottom-left corner of this page. That way you can see it yourself. I simply very annoying to read :-( |
OH &^%(*& THAT IS UGLY!
I changed it to white. (even tho the Blue or Yellow is much purdier with a gray background selected)
Hurry up and read it becuse an hour from now I am going to change it to Yellow
The U S Navy says it is sunk. The dutch qualify it as sunk/scuttled.
But then again, the Navy does not recognize that Japanase merchantmen were sunk when they ran themselves into the beach, never to be used again, in the Solomons. Of course then we could go further and say the Arizona was not sunk because part of the ship was sticking out of the water.
The O 19 was just a BTW. My post was mainly about the
23 junks/sampans the USS COD boarded then sunk with gun fire in less than 2 weeks! 