Microsoft founder Paul G. Allens Vulcan Inc./Navigea Ltd, R/V Petrel, has released video of its locating the wreck of the USS Wasp in the Coral Sea. They found the Wasp shortly after the found the USS Hornet. Be sure to watch Mark Philips' interview with a survivor of the Wasp.
1 posted on
03/15/2019 8:25:00 AM PDT by
GreyFriar
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2 posted on
03/15/2019 8:31:21 AM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: GreyFriar
This should act as a reminder to all of what “total war” is like.
JoMa
3 posted on
03/15/2019 8:31:42 AM PDT by
joma89
To: GreyFriar
I-19 conducted the most ‘successful’ torpedo attack in the history of naval warfare on that terrible day.
4 posted on
03/15/2019 8:34:10 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: GreyFriar
5 posted on
03/15/2019 8:39:12 AM PDT by
M Kehoe
(DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
To: GreyFriar
Remarkable what money can do.
6 posted on
03/15/2019 8:39:49 AM PDT by
immadashell
(Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
To: GreyFriar
The 'perp':
9 posted on
03/15/2019 9:04:08 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: GreyFriar
The light cruiser Juneau was also torpedoed and sunk at Guadalcanal, with the loss of 687 men including the five Sullivan brothers. She was located in March of 2018 by Paul Allen’s vessel as well.
13 posted on
03/15/2019 9:24:37 AM PDT by
dainbramaged
(If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
To: GreyFriar
My uncle was on the Wasp in 1945 when it was hit by a typhoon. He was 18 years old and came home paralyzed from the waist down. He was struck by a beam. He spent a long time in the naval hospital, in Brooklyn, where he met his wife who happened to be his nurse. She was from Boston and did her nursing studies in Quincy where she actually watched the Wasp being built at the Fore River Shipyard. I don’t think he ever missed a Wasp reunion and his love for the Navy lasted his entire life.
14 posted on
03/15/2019 9:31:56 AM PDT by
surrey
To: GreyFriar
To: SunkenCiv
25 posted on
03/15/2019 5:41:41 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
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