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Flag-lowering orders are decreed either on a national level by the president of the United States or at a state level by the governor.

Flag-lowering orders are decreed either on a national level by the president of the United States or at a state level by the governor.

The submarine left Pearl Harbor on October 24, 1944, and the U.S. Navy believes the vessel struck a mine near Hokkaidō on November 7, 1944. The Gato-class submarine is believed to have had 85 souls onboard.

It has been doing so for decades.

Japanese researchers have located the wreck of USS Albacore, one of the most successful U.S. submarines of World War II, off the island of Hokkaido, where the sub sank after hitting a mine in November

For the average person, the deck logs of the U.S. Navy are what Dave Johnson would call mind-numbing and indecipherable.

The Underwater Archaeology branch of the US Naval History and Heritage Command used images and data from Dr. Tamaki Ura of the University of Tokyo to confirm the submarine's identity.

Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) confirmed the identity of a wreck site off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, as USS Albacore (SS 218) Feb. 16.

The Navy has confirmed the discovery of the missing World War II submarine USS Albacore (SS-218) off Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island by a team of Japanese researchers. On Thursday, Naval History and Heritage Command said its Underwater Archaeology Branch used imagery and information from Tamaki Uki, a University of Tokyo specialist in developing autonomous […]

A 200m-deep wreck-site off the coast of Esan on Hokkaido in Japan has been confirmed as that of the long-lost WW2 submarine USS Albacore by Naval History