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Last Missing US Carrier, The Wasp, Located

As predicted here in February, it was only a matter of time before wreck searchers in the South PacificĀ found the USS Wasp. The announcement of the location of CV-7 in the Coral Sea was made a couple of days ago. The Wasp had been ferrying replacement aircraft to Guadalcanal when it was torpedoed and went down on September 15th, 1942.

The site is the resting place for 193 sailors and marines, thus the actual location is not being released. More

9 Comments on Last Missing US Carrier, The Wasp, Located

  1. We can thank microsoft co-founder the late Paul Allen for this.

    Compare to bill gates’s unproductive outside-miscrosoft ventures.

    Allen was the visionary. Gates was the businessman.

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  2. America does not have the intestinal fortitude it used to have. Many of those who fought and died for freedom deserve our heartfelt thanks for what they sacrificed and what they accomplished.

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  3. I get caught up in those links…Whether it be youtube or a

    wikipedia style page….I keep clicking on each individual person

    or side story…Don’t get Me wrong…I enjoy it.

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  4. “Eternal Father, strong to save,
    Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
    Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep
    Its own appointed limits keep;
    Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
    For those in peril on the sea!”

    I hope the exact location is never released. Let those brave sailors lie in peace. They earned it….

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  5. Anyone who has even been aboard a Navy ship should know the risks involved in being out at sea. Anything can happen but for the most part doesn’t which is why I (and everyone else who went out to sea) had to learn how to tread water in boot camp for at least 15 to 20 minutes in case of finding myself overboard the ship in the midst of that gigantic and merciless ocean, specifically the Pacific and the Indian oceans. F4UCorsair, thanks for the Navy prayer. I loved going out to sea aboard the USS Kitty Hawk CV 63 it was quite an adventure when I was 20-22 years old. And besides where else can you see flying fish and dolphins and porpoises going along for the ride following in the wake of the ship and the occasional whale and shark in the middle of the ocean. And a supposed mermaid in the San Bernadino Straits in the Philippines.

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