Gulf of Thailand Wreck May Be U.S. WWII Sub
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The Navy says a wreck found at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand appears to be the Lagarto, a United States submarine that disappeared in the final months of World War II on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy.
Navy divers completed a six-day survey of the wreckage site.
They took photos and video of the 312-foot submarine for analysis by naval archeologists.
Eighty-six sailors died when the Lagarto sank in May 1945.
The Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka reported dropping depth charges and sinking a U.S. sub in the area, though it was never known what craft it destroyed.
![San Clemente Island, viewed from a shuttle aircraft that regularly flies military and civilian personnel to the U.S. Navy-owned land mass 68 miles from San Diego. The military airstrip is seen at the northern end. The southern end has the only remaining ship-to-shore bombardment range in the U.S. The Navy has supported an extensive ecological restoration of endangered plants and animals on the island. [For the record, July 24, 2013: An earlier version of this caption incorrectly said the military airstrip was at the southern end of the island, and the bombardment range to the north.]](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4328c11/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2017x1349+15+0/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F27%2F1c%2F485caad18db60fdd718a1f97ed77%2Flat-1479178donbart-la0010504175-20130717)
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