A sunken tanker became a training siteSourced
A tanker lost to a torpedo later served as demolition practice.
In April 1942, the tanker Axtell J. Byles was torpedoed while US Coast Guard cutter Dione escorted its convoy. Later that month, Dione began demolition exercises on the tanker's wreck.
A lost vessel became a site for the crew's next task.
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