This boot was found on the shipwreck of the USS Nevada ... work and temporary repairs enabled her to steam to the U.S. west coast in April 1942. She spent the rest of the year receiving permanent ...

Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

Wind and waves from the west hit ... 40 hours later by a Coast Guard helicopter. Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, has one of the highest concentrations of shipwrecks in the world.