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    PETREL FINDS DEEPEST WRECK

    Feb 04, 2020 1 minute

    THERE WASN’T MUCH LEFT. Just debris resting on the floor of the Philippine Sea—a shattered gun deck, two funnels, a propeller shaft, twisted metal.

    But researchers believe they have found the remains of (DD-557), a class destroyer sunk on October 25, 1944, in an audacious against-the-odds stand against a Japanese naval squadron at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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