The US Forest Service has announced the discovery of a World War II-era ship in Lake Shasta, which dried up due to climate change in California, according to ABC.
The USS Shasta Trinity shared photos of the ship, which they called the Higgins boat or “ghost boat” on Facebook, and officials discovered it had a “31-17” sign on its side, which they said was confirmation that the ship was intended to transport the USS Monrovia attack. , according to the US Forest Service.
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The Forest Service said the boat was also used as the headquarters for General George S. Patton during the 1943 invasion of Sicily, wrote on Facebook: “Eisenhower was also on this ship at the time, and he went to 6 more wars on D-Day in the Pacific.”
The Forest Service said, “It’s really amazing how it came out of the lake with so many stories to tell. Any restoration will be done to keep as much of the integrity of the boat as possible and hopefully keep it looking combat fatigue and that’s the purpose of it being shown in a museum in Nebraska.”
According to the report, the conditions for the sinking of the boat remain unknown, but climate change and drought are a warning to other discoveries in the western United States. In July, another Higgins-class boat appeared on the surface of Lake Mead in Nevada due to receding waters amid rising temperatures.
The ship was so far from the surface that the National Forest Police sent divers searching for it in 2006, and receding waters have also led to the discovery of multiple bodies in Lake Mead So far this year, five sets of human remains have been found in Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the world. country.