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Article: The sub that couldn't shoot straight: in the summer of 1942, the Japanese navy brought the war in the Pacific to the British Columbia coast.(SECOND WORLD WAR)
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- Esprit de Corps
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- May 1, 2009
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ON THE EVENING of June 20, 1942 Mrs. Thomas Dick was walking on the beach near Hesquiat Harbour, a fishing village on the west coast of Vancouver Island, when she saw something rise out of the water in the gathering darkness.
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"It came up like a whale only it didn't make splashes," Mrs. Dick said. "It came up near a buoy and slowly went down again. It stayed up for nearly five minutes. I was very excited. It had a long top on it, something like a ship. I ran to get my son but when we looked again it was gone."
Later that evening, a crewman aboard an American fishing boat, the Sea Breeze, spotted what he thought was a ...