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Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970
Posted by: Bob Schmidt ()
Date: July 15, 2016 12:52AM

vito Wrote:
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> Bruce...
>
> That area you mentioned on the south side of the
> Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel is called Willoughby
> Spit - the Ocean View area of Norfolk. What you
> observed was a former WW I German submarine -
> driving south, it was on the right hand side of
> I-64 as I remember...
>
> I observed the same thing at various times when I
> lived in the area 1960 through the 1980's, and was
> told by Navy personnel that it was an old WW I
> German submarine that was left to rot there by the
> Navy.
>
> but the plot thickens.....
>
> [www.pierandsurf.com]
> d.php?53935-Willoughby-Spit-s-sunken-sub
>
> [www.google.com]
> window=1&safe=off&q=%22submarine+at+willoughby+spi
> t%22&btnG=Search&oq=%22submarine+at+willoughby+spi
> t%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=4235l7953l0l96
> 88l7l7l0l0l0l0l266l1158l0.4.3l7l0

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Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 BHenderson 09/21/2011 01:14PM
Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 vito 09/21/2011 04:00PM
Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 BHenderson 09/21/2011 04:38PM
Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 Bob Schmidt 07/15/2016 12:52AM
Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 RJ 09/30/2011 01:42AM
Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 Neil Boyd 09/29/2015 03:14PM
Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970 Clyde Nordan 09/16/2018 11:25PM


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