Скачать или смотреть BREAKING: New USS Harder (SS-257) Discovery at 3800m Depth Changes Everything We Thought We Knew

For eighty years, the USS Harder lay somewhere on the floor of the South China Sea. Her captain was the most aggressive submarine commander in American history. They called him the Destroyer Killer. He sank more enemy warships than any other skipper in the Pacific. His signature move was suicide by any normal standard. He would turn directly toward a charging destroyer and fire torpedoes down its throat.

It worked every time. Until it didn't.

In May 2024, the Lost 52 Project finally found her. Three thousand feet down. Using 4D photogrammetry, they scanned every inch of the wreck. What they found changes the story we've been told for generations.

The fatal wound is visible. The damage pattern tells us exactly how she died. But it also raises a darker question. One that haunted the submarine service then and haunts historians now.

Should Samuel Dealey have been sent home after his fifth patrol? Or was one more mission the only choice a man like him could make?

Seventy-nine men followed him into the deep. None of them came back.