Posted on 09/28/2010 7:59:34 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
The USS Emmons served the United States proudly through World War II, right up until April 6, 1945, when it was attacked by five kamikaze pilots off the coast of Okinawa. One day later, the U.S. Navy sank the destroyer to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Japanese.
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probably just a stupid diver, adding to his collection.
read recently where a U boat, sunk off North Carolina has had pieces stolen off it, including a periscope and radar antenna.
On the other hand if it’s just left to nature, in a century you just have a red rust stain on the seafloor. There is some merit to preserving artifacts and the memory of a heroic ship.
Visit any museum. Archaeologists and collectors loot tombs routinely. And we make a folk hero of Indiana Jones.
I would hope that most recreational divers who dive on military vessels lost at sea during combat operations are crypts and entering them and disturbing anything is tantamount to grave robbing.
I’ve also noticed that the young amongst us are ill-education regarding appropriate behavior when a funeral procession passes, or the amount of sacrifice our service men and women provide on a daily basis.
A few years ago, he was diving off Florida's East Coast, when he spotted an aircraft wreck. He started looking it over, but stopped when he realized that there were human remains inside.
The dive boat captain notified the Coast Guard, who got in touch with the Navy, who sent a recovery team down to investigate. It turns out that it was a Marine Corps trainer out of Jacksonville that had gone down in early 1943. Both student and instructor were lost in the crash and were listed as MIA for right at sixty years. Both were successfully recovered and were buried with full military honors there at Jacksonville.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps sent Clayton a challenge coin and a certificate of commendation for helping bring two Marines home who'd been away for far too long.
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