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Paul Allen finds lost WWII ship USS Indianapolis
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| Leigh Hedger
Posted on 08/20/2017 9:42:16 AM PDT by EagleUSA
"We've located the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea at 5500m below the sea."
That tweet from entrepreneur and billionaire Paul Allen around 12:20 p.m. Saturday confirmed what many have been searching for since the ship was sunk on July 30, 1945.
Allen, who is leading a 13-person team on his 250-foot research ship, the R/V Petrel, said the wreckage was found at a depth of more than 18,000 feet.
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KEYWORDS: history; navy; usnavy; ussindianapolis; ww2; wwii
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A great ole girl is located. A fantastic piece of history. Something positive for a change.
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posted on
08/20/2017 9:42:16 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
That is amazing!
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posted on
08/20/2017 9:52:27 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
To: EagleUSA
Paul Allen? Didn't he die? What's he doing looking for ships? I would imagine that isn't exactly his bag.
"Wooo hoooo! We found the ship! Wooo hoo!"
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:03:58 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
They delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb.
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:11:26 AM PDT
by
MGG
To: EagleUSA
The sharks found it first.
Love, Quint
♫Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain; ♫
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:21:08 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: EagleUSA
A survivor, seen on the documentary The War, gave his account of that fateful night and the days that followed. Four days of Hell.
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:21:41 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: EagleUSA
Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?
Paul Allen: They’re OK.
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:32:32 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: EagleUSA
The skipper thought the was was over and wasn’t zig-zagging When interrogated after the war, the commander of the Japanese sub said it didn’t matter, the Indianapolis was so close he couldn’t have missed zig-zag, or not.
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:48:26 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: EagleUSA
god bless those sailors who perished with her - 1,400 I think
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:49:08 AM PDT
by
vooch
(America First Drain the Swamp)
To: EagleUSA
"Well...at least we delivered the Bomb."
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:52:47 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
To: fso301
Sadly, Captain McVeigh, the skipper of the Indianapolis eventually committed suicide.
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posted on
08/20/2017 10:53:49 AM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: MGG
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posted on
08/20/2017 11:00:13 AM PDT
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
08/20/2017 11:07:16 AM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
To: A_Former_Democrat
They floated in the water. Sharks would pick them off. A guy next to you would be there on second and then gone. The book was a tough read.
To: A_Former_Democrat
They floated in the water. Sharks would pick them off. A guy next to you would be there on second and then gone. The book was a tough read.
To: gunsequalfreedom
....”The book was a tough read”....
Yes it was. Horrible how the sharks picked them off and the guys knew it all too well....
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posted on
08/20/2017 11:22:30 AM PDT
by
caww
To: EagleUSA
18000 feet. Compared to the Edmund Fitzgerald in about 530 feet at the bottom Lake Superior, the Titanic at about 12500 in the North Atlantic, and the Bismarck at 15719 feet also in the North Atlantic.
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posted on
08/20/2017 11:31:21 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: EagleUSA
Images.
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posted on
08/20/2017 12:07:45 PM PDT
by
4Zoltan
To: EagleUSA
Is it true they couldn’t send a distress signal?
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posted on
08/20/2017 12:14:58 PM PDT
by
Crucial
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