One of the last known subchasers built to defend the U.S. in World War II has spent the past 80 years sitting in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River, and historians aren’t exactly sure why it’s still there.
Like so many bits of WWII weaponry, the USS Patrol Craft-1084 was sold off after the war, putting it in the hands of an entrepreneur with big ideas for its future, historians say.
Clearly, intentions changed, creating something of a mystery…