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'Shadow Divers': True Story of Solving WWII Mystery

NPR
Published July 8, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

The new book Shadow Divers tells the true story of two dive enthusiasts who solved a mystery from World War Two off the coast of New Jersey. Ritchie Kohler and John Chatterton plunged to dangerous depths and found a Nazi U-boat on the ocean floor. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with author Robert Kurson about the discovery.

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