Incredible footage shows massive dump of Second World War munitions discovered in 3,000ft of water off the coast of LA

At war's end, hundreds of aircraft and other equipment was surplus. Often it was brand new, but there was little incentive to spend the money to transport it back to the US as salvage. So it was dumped in the western Pacific.

Some more modern history topics that I'm not adding to the keyword.

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21 posted on 01/08/2024 10:37:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)

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