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Title: Probable WWII submarine wreck found in PNG
Post by: MWALLEN on October 27, 2011, 11:29:03 PM

http://news.defence.gov.au/2011/10/27/probable-wwii-submarine-wreck-found-in-png/ (http://news.defence.gov.au/2011/10/27/probable-wwii-submarine-wreck-found-in-png/)

Link to images: http://images.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/Grid.fwx?archiveId=5003=&search=11121086 (http://images.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/Grid.fwx?archiveId=5003=&search=11121086)

Very interesting.

Mark

Title: Re: Probable WWII submarine wreck found in PNG
Post by: BrokenArrowtiger on October 28, 2011, 06:12:55 PM

Hm..their is 1 US submarine that is MIA from that area USS Amberjack

Title: Re: Probable WWII submarine wreck found in PNG
Post by: Mark Sarsfield on November 07, 2011, 07:11:55 PM

Images are poor quality.  Almost looks like a U-boat or IJN sub bridge.

Title: Re: Probable WWII submarine wreck found in PNG
Post by: BrokenArrowtiger on November 07, 2011, 09:28:08 PM

its not German most of the uboats that remain missing are missing up in the north atlantic  it might be a jap like you said it is very hard to tell.

Title: Re: Probable WWII submarine wreck found in PNG
Post by: kf4qic on May 21, 2014, 01:40:06 AM

Found this on wikipedia.

Link :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Amberjack_%28SS-219%29

Title: Re: Probable WWII submarine wreck found in PNG
Post by: Darrin on May 21, 2014, 08:41:03 AM

Thanks for the information on the Amberjack, I had forgotten her story and it sounds very possible that this is the Amberjack. The pictures provided show that it is a submarine (conning tower and the picture looking down on her) hopefully they will identifiy her