Explorers find the world's deepest shipwreck four miles under the Pacific - WW II USS Samuel B. Roberts - Battle of Leyte Gulf

CNN ^ | 06/25/22 | CNN

[NFHale]

Re Yamato counts:

Sure does. Yamato and Musashi - largest battle wagons in existence at the the time.

[politicket]

Everybody is fighting to be the next Josef Mengele.

Their lust for the blood of the innocent is sobering for our nation.

[politicket]

Oops...posted in wrong thread

[bravo whiskey]

The first USS Halsey,CG-23, was a Leahy-class guided missile cruiser.

[DesertRhino]

Those guys are probably the craziest warriors America ever produced. That was just insane on their part for a DE to attack a fleet of battleships. It was so insane the Japs were certain that they were the vanguard of something terrible and fled.

God bless them.

[sarge83]

They went up against cruisers and battleships including the Yamato. They fought like lions until the Japanese withdrew.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 6/25/2022, thanks srmanuel.

Caladan Oceanic returns to the ocean battlefield off of Samar, and resumes its search for American vessels lost during the battle. After an extensive search, the team finds the deepest wreck ever found on the seafloor, that of the Destroyer Escort Samuel B "Sammy B" Roberts. The vessel was lost after a ferocious fight with the cream of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the largest overall naval battle of World War II, the 1994 Battle of the Philippine Sea.

The Deepest Wreck Ever Located: The Destroyer Escort Samuel B Roberts
Caladan Oceanic | July 19, 2022