March 15, 1942: CAP Spots Sunken Tanker in Atlantic Ocean

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On this date in 1942, a Civil Air Patrol aircraft spotted a sunken American tanker in the Atlantic.

An excerpt from a Navy report at the U-boat Archive:

104th Observation Squadron reported that the Civil Air Patrol had sighted a tanker under water at about 39-15 N., 74 W.* Small boat and life raft in vicinity; no survivors observed. One life boat sighted 2 miles North of sunken tanker.

*Coordinates appear to be incorrectly written down in original report as this lat/long is in the middle of Delaware.
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