$36 Million Of Silver Found From WWII Shipwreck
Who doesn’t love stories about sunken treasures? A Nazi U-boat reportedly sunk a British merchant ship that had 61 tons of silver on board. This happened on February 17, 1941. 70 years later, an American underwater archaeology group discovered the shipwreck approximately 300 miles away from the coast of Ireland. The silver weighed an impressive 1.8 million ounces! The ship was headed back to England after an expedition in India, and it had to separate from the military convoy due to insufficient fuel and the terrible weather conditions.
$36 Million Of Silver Found From WWII Shipwreck
WWII Bomb Kills Construction Driver
While the aforementioned discoveries have been fortunate enough to be non-threatening, that’s not always the case. In 2014, mechanical digger unwittingly set off a WWII bomb that ended up killing one person and injuring 13 others. The Allied forces actually planted bombs near factories to combat the Nazis. More of these bombs have been discovered in recent times.
WWII Bomb Kills Construction Driver
