Low water levels in California's drought-stricken Shasta Lake have revealed the long-lost wreckage of a ship that served in World War II.
The USS Monrovia eventually sank in shallow waters off an island in the Pacific Ocean.
"There is more to discover of its history and obviously its time on Shasta Lake, and still the circumstance of its sinking remains a mystery," the Forest Service wrote.Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945. Around 1,500"Higgins boats" were deployed at Normandy.
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