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The wreckage of a sunken US Navy submarine that sank the most Japanese warships during World War Two has been found in the South China Sea, 80 years after being taken down by enemy forces. The USS Harder was found 3,000 feet (914 meters) below water off the Philippines’ northern island of Luzon and was sunk in battle on August 29, 1944, along with its crew of 79 men, according to the BBC. In one of its last war patrols, it sank three Japanese destroyers and severely damaged two others over four days, as reported by the US Navy’s History and Heritage Command (NHHC). This forced the Japanese to …