USS Hornet found near Solomon Islands
 

Very cool.

https://worldwarwings.com/breaking-f...BTH4ED3qXnzrzE

Breaking | First Pictures Of USS Hornet Surface After Ship Is Finally Found


On February 6th, 2019, the wreckage of USS Hornet, which sank 77 years ago, was finally found. R/V Petrel, a research vessel owned by the estate of Paul Allen (which is also responsible for finding various other historical wrecks), located the ship off the Soloman Islands 17,000 feet below the surface.

The finding of this ship is significant because the ship itself made a difference in World War II. USS Hornet (CV-8) was launched in 1940 as a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was sent off to fight in the Pacific Theater.

She fought nobly during the war taking major roles in both the Battle of Midway and the launch of the Doolittle Raid but was eventually struck on January 13th, 1943. During heavy fighting, Hornet was targeted by Japanese dive bombers, many of which scored major hits on both the hull and the bridge.

She eventually succumbed to her damage, sinking into the Pacific and taking 140 of the crew with her. The remaining survivors were picked up by surrounding ships.

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Wow

that old dude seems cool as shit. LMAO

Awesome.

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That's really, really, cool.

Neat.

"If you find my locker there's $40 bucks in it. You can have it"

LMAO

that was a badass video.

Growing up I had the chance to talk to several WW II vets... I found them to be some of the most interesting people I have ever met... True American heroes...

God Bless America!

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Fools! Don't give away its position!

They got a liiiiiitle over-dramatic there.

Yes, she sunk. Yes, some of her sailors died. But they kinda made it sound like she went down with 2,000 souls or something. My memory is that she was scuttled and had been abandoned for some time by then.

Those Yorktown carriers had about 3,000 people on them. It probably lost about 5% of its crew when it was being attacked. "The final resting place of so many of her brave crew" is kinda overdone seeing as how they'd probably pulled many of those casualties off the ship before they set about scuttling her.

Still damn cool, especially the interview with the sailor, but leave it to network news shows to go for the heart strings just for shits and grins.

140

Watched this show called “Drain the Oceans”. Shows all the wrecks on the bottom of the ocean and tells their story on how and why they went down. Interesting stuff, to me anyway.

Wow, very cool video.

500 lb armour piercing bombs going off below deck that 5% lost was not a lot left to recover.