The Battle of KS-520: Results from a survey of a WWII battlefield off North Carolina's coast.
Author(s): Joseph C Hoyt
Year: 2018
Summary
When WWII came to the United States, the east coast became part of a massive naval battlefield. Few other areas better represent this activity than the waters off North Carolina. Monitor National Marine Sanctuary has been studying sites in the region associated with the Battle of the Atlantic for nearly ten years. When convoy KS-520 was attacked by a German u-boat escort vessels sunk U-576 in a counterstrike. As a result, a stricken freighter and the u-boat that sunk it were lost. In 2014 the remains of both sites were discovered in 800' of water near Cape Hatteras separated by a mere 250m. In 2016 archaeologists with NOAA and BOEM formed a partnership with NGO Project Baseline to survey the sites with manned submersibles and laser scanning technology. This paper will showcase the preliminary results of the survey.
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The Battle of KS-520: Results from a survey of a WWII battlefield off North Carolina's coast.. Joseph C Hoyt. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441528)
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Keywords
General
Battlefield
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laser-scanning
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U-boat
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Modern, WWII era
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 239