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The Remains of U.S. Shipwrecks Are Lurking on the Ocean Floor -- and They're Ticking Time Bombs
On June 28, 1942 -- more than seven months after the U. S. Congress declared war on Japan and Germany, formally initiating the country's involvement in World War II -- a German U-701 submarine attacked the 554-foot-long SS William Rockefeller as part of Operation Drumbeat, an Axis effort to attack U.
