This
sonar image provided by GK Consulting & AWS Expeditions/Joe
Mazraani, shows a World War II-era German submarine U-550, found by a
team of explorers Monday, July 23, 2012, on the floor of the Atlantic
Ocean 70 miles south of Nantucket Island, Mass. On April 16, 1944, the
U-550 torpedoed an Allied gasoline tanker, but was fatally damaged by
depth charges from an escort destroyer, the USS Joyce. Forty-four
Germans were killed and 25 aboard the tanker died. (AP Photo/GK
Consulting & AWS Expeditions/Joe Mazraani) MANDATORY CREDIT
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