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Nazi spies landed on US soil days before German U-boat sank Canadian ship off Maine in 1944; 82 years later, divers find wreck 400 feet underwater

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Divers from the Nomad Exploration Team located the wreck of the SS Cornwallis nearly 400 feet underwater. This ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in December 1944, resulting…

A German submarine secretly landed two Nazi spies on American soil in November 1944 before torpedoing a Canadian merchant ship off the coast of Maine just four days later, killing 43 people aboard. More than eight decades after the World War II tragedy, divers have finally located the long-lost vessel nearly 400 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

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