Ships

[xoxoxoBruce]

But Tojo was running the government and the war, Hirohito was a mushroom, kept in the dark and fed shit.

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Revealed: Viet Cong Commandos Sank a Navy Aircraft Carrier

Attack on the USNS Card

Wait, whut? Charlie sunk a carrier?

USS Card



Well, helicopter transport.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah but it was a sneak attack...

On 2 May 1964, while moored dockside in Saigon, a North Vietnamese frogman, Lam Son Nao, planted an explosive charge that blew a hole in the hull, killing five crewmen. (It should be noted that this event was prior to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which led to the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam.)

[xoxoxoBruce]

USS Juneau hull was found by Paul Allen's team on St Patrick's Day, 2.6 miles below the surface of the Pacific, near Guadalcanal.
Sunk by two Jap torpedos in 1943, the Juneau is most noted for the five Sullivan brothers being among the 700 crew.

[Carruthers]

Another one of Mr Allen's discoveries.

USS Lexington: aircraft carrier scuttled in 1942 is finally found

Wreck from second world war’s Battle of the Coral Sea is located off eastern coast of Australia by search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

Wreckage from the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier that sank during the second world war, has been found in the Coral Sea by a search team led by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

The wreckage was found on Sunday by the team’s research vessel, the R/V Petrel, about 3,000m (two miles) below the surface and more than 500 miles (800km) off the eastern coast of Australia.

The team released pictures and video of the wreckage of the Lexington – one of the first ever US aircraft carriers – and some of the planes that went down with it.

Remarkably preserved aircraft could be seen on the seabed bearing the five-pointed star insignia of the US navy on their wings and fuselage.

On one aircraft an emblem of the cartoon character Felix the Cat can be seen along with four miniature Japanese flags presumably depicting “kills”.

The search team also released pictures and video of parts of the ship, including a nameplate and anti-aircraft guns covered in decades of slime.

The Lexington and another carrier, the USS Yorktown, fought against three Japanese aircraft carriers from 4 to 8 May 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first ever between carriers.

The badly damaged Lexington, nicknamed “Lady Lex”, was deliberately sunk by another US warship at the conclusion of the battle.
More than 200 members of the crew died in the battle but most were rescued by other US vessels before the Lexington was scuttled.

Admiral Harry Harris, who heads up the US military’s Pacific Command (Pacom) – and whose father was one of the sailors evacuated – paid tribute to the successful research effort.
“As the son of a survivor of the USS Lexington, I offer my congratulations to Paul Allen and the expedition crew of Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel for locating the ‘Lady Lex’, sunk nearly 76 years ago at the Battle of Coral Sea. We honor the valor and sacrifice of the ‘Lady Lex’s’ Sailors – and all those Americans who fought in World War II – by continuing to secure the freedoms they won for all of us.”

The Lexington was carrying 35 aircraft when it went down. The search team said that 11 planes had been found including Douglas TBD-1 Devastators, Douglas SBD-3 Dauntlesses and Grumman F4F-3 Wildcats.

Search teams led by Allen have discovered the wreckage of a number of historic warships including the USS Indianapolis, a US heavy cruiser that sank in the Philippine Sea in July 1945 after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.

The Guardian

Smithsonian

[glatt]

He's on a roll this month.

[BigV]

200 died in the battle but most were rescued before the ship was scuttled

???

some were not rescued before scuttling? I think and hope that's merely an awkwardly constructed sentence

[xoxoxoBruce]

It was scuttled because of damage sustained during the battle in which 200 were killed.

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[fargon]

Neat.

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When the water first pours in the windows, and when the deck is first awash...Those moments make my blood pressure go up a tick, or two.

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Better bigger.

[xoxoxoBruce]

There's carriers and there's carriers...

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Ain't it cute?

Bless their hearts.

[Carruthers]

Nobody said it would be plane sailing.