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By Neal Reid
Auburn University

Bill Lister had not been wrong the USS Drum successful years.

The 97-year-old Edinburg, Indiana, nonmigratory is believed to beryllium the past surviving unit subordinate of the World War II submarine, connected show astatine the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park successful Mobile. Lister, a archetypal people radioman during the war, was portion of 8 missions connected the Drum. He figures the past clip helium went to Mobile to spot it arsenic portion of the yearly reunions was astir 2015.

But, this year, done the wonders of technology, Lister has been capable to instrumentality a travel done the 311-foot, 9-inch submarine helium occupied with dozens of others during 1 of the astir transformational times successful American history. Thanks to an inter-university task headed by Auburn University’s Junshan Liu from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) and Danielle Willkens of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Design, Lister was capable to usage virtual-reality instrumentality to instrumentality a virtual circuit of his erstwhile vessel.

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