CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Head out to sea from Fort Williams Park, and somewhere out there — around 300 feet down — lies the wreckage of the USS Eagle PE-56. Of the crew, 49 men died as the ship sank — ...
On April 23, 1945 patrol boat USS Eagle PE-56 was sunk by a torpedo fired from a German submarine, the U-853, just a few miles off the coast of Maine. Split in half by the blast, Eagle quickly sank to ...
Seventy-four years ago the USS Eagle 56 was towing targets for the U.S. Navy to perform bomber exercises a few miles off the coast of Maine when it was attacked by German submarine U-853. Several ...
Divers have discovered the wreck of one of the last U.S. Navy warships sunk by a German submarine during World War II. Patrol boat USS Eagle PE-56 was located by a private dive team just a few miles ...
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In April 1945, a U.S. naval patrol boat sank off the coast of Maine and was lost for more than half a century. Maine Public reporter Nick Song tells us how a historian discovered what really happened ...
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