[George - the Other]

Coral Sea was an important battle, as it stopped the Japanese advance, and helped set up the U.S. victory at Midway.

[Dog]

Leyete Gulf was big also

[miliantnutcase]

Paul Allen is a roll! wow

[gaijin]

The Japanese currency for a conquered Australia had already been printed up.

[Bonemaker]

“The US Navy confirmed the ship had been discovered by a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.”

Allen is a big collector and restorer of WW2 warbirds. 2 miles deep may be too much to recover anything.

[BlueLancer]

From the article: The ship will not be retrieved because the US Navy considers it to be a war grave.

Well, I would have first guessed that the ship wouldn't be retrieved because it is some two miles deep in the Pacific and it was 888 feet long and over 43,000 tons.

[smokingfrog]

Cool.

[Stanimal]

My maternal grandfather was on the Lex at Coral Sea. He floated a few hours, then was rescued. Went on to serve on the Bennington and the Card in WWII, then lived a full life back home in Missouri.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

the japs thought they had sunk yorktown as well but she limped back to pearl and was patched up and ready for what turned into the battle of midway.lexington was such a beautiful ship.glad they found her

[rlmorel]

BFL

[Redleg Duke]

If that number of men were lost today, the pantywaists in the media and Dem party would be screaming to surrender because all was lost!

This country needs a serious moral awakening...and I think Donald J. Trump may be the catalyst.

[Yo-Yo]

Related: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3637596/posts

[DCBryan1]

BFL

[rexthecat]

The ship is a tomb. I say let it be.

[OneVike]

It took you 14 years to figure that out?

That is more interesting, than what you just noticed.

[GreyFriar]

To my Armor & Army ping list, a special Navy ping to spread the news of the discovery of the wreck of the USS Lexington, CV-2.

The two aircraft in the video and/or still shots are a TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane and a F4F-3 Wildcat fighter. The missing section behind the cockpit is where the fighter’s life raft was stored.

Here is a link to her history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_(CV-2)

[PAR35]

It could outgun anything in the US Navy today (8 8” guns and 12 5” guns. It would class out as a heavy cruiser even without the big guns it was originally designed to carry.

[Theoria]

Thank you USS Lexington, and Mr. Allen.

The Blue Ghost, USS Lexington (CV-16), is still around and at Corpus Christi if anyone wants to see her.

[cll]

She sank in the Coral Sea. She was found in the Coral Sea. Where else did they expected it to turn up, in the Caribbean?