Word: seafloor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinkings, would not answer. But he told a little parable: One day in the last war he had flown over the Bay of Biscay in a French blimp. He had taken the controls himself for a bit. The next day the blimp thought it saw a submarine on the seafloor near Penmarch Point, where a U-boat had periodically attacked shipping entering the Loire's mouth. The blimp put down a buoy. Airplanes and sub-chasers dropped depth charges. An oil slick showed, but the Allies did not claim a submarine. After the war divers went down off Penmarch...