Wreckage of USS Abner Read

Kiska: Alaska's Underwater Battlefield: Missing Section of U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Abner Read Found Near Remote Kiska Island, Alaska

An 11-person team from Project Recover , along with four active-duty U.S. Navy sailors, set sail on July 11, 2018, aboard the Research Vessel Norseman II to Kiska Island in the Aleutians to survey one of the most remote and austere underwater battlefield sites of World War II. During the expedition, the team located the missing section of the USS Abner Read, a 376-foot Fletcher-class U.S. Navy destroyer that struck a Japanese mine on August 18, 1943, resulting in the loss of 71 U.S. Navy sailors.

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