[GreyFriar]

Microsoft founder Paul G. Allen’s 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.

[GreyFriar]

I also recommend reading this report about the finding of the USS Wasp that is on the Fox News website: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/wreck-of-wwii-aircraft-carrier-uss-wasp-discovered-in-the-coral-sea

[joma89]

This should act as a reminder to all of what “total war” is like.

JoMa

[central_va]

I-19 conducted the most ‘successful’ torpedo attack in the history of naval warfare on that terrible day.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[immadashell]

Remarkable what money can do.

[central_va]

The 'perp':

[dainbramaged]

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.

[surrey]

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.

[Karl Spooner]

https://youtu.be/PZGQxGygA0U

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*