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Re: Mystery Submarine - Norfolk VA, ca 1970
Posted by: RJ ()
Date: September 30, 2011 01:42AM

I have lived in Norfolk all my life and I can confirm that you did see a U-Boat. I am 57 and it was there when I was a kid. We used to ride our bikes down and check it out. Not sure how or why it was beached there but it stayed there until they built a second bridge tunnel that parallels the original span.

They had to remove it to build the new span. By the time it was removed it was just a rusty framework. When I was young it still had enough decking and hull to identify it as a U-Boat.

I have looked for additional information about it's history without success.

Hope this helps.

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