“This discovery allows the families of those lost some amount of closure and gives us all another chance to remember and honor their service to our nation. Cox said in a release announcing the location of the wreckage. “Ommaney Bay is the final resting place of American Sailors who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country,” retired admiral and NHHC Director Samuel J. “This information was correlated with location data for the wreck site” gathered in 2019. Of her 800-strong crew, 95 were lost.Ī crew working alongside NHHC personnel located the ship Monday using “a combination of survey information provided by the Sea Scan Survey team and video footage provided by the DPT Scuba dive team,” according to the release. the USS Burns fired a single torpedo at the unsalvageable escort carrier, sending the hulking, broiling ship below the surface for good. No ships came to support us because the light carrier Princeton had been damaged when it went alongside the Birmingham when it was bombed, so they stayed away from us. Uncover the rewarding and fulfilling careers of the Navy and find out what to expect in the day-to-day as an. American industry provided almost two-thirds. “In the water, I stayed still and a few sharks just went by me. All the answers are correct The Battle of Midway is considered important for which reason Until that point, the Japanese Navy was on the offensive and this battle was a major turning point in favor of the United States. In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. After Guadalcanal, they told us, ‘If you ever hit the water, don’t kick or nothing, because the sharks will come after you.’ I’d seen men get pulled under by sharks and ate up at Guadalcanal. “I remembered from Guadalcanal, we saw a submarine’s periscope. Looked like men were climbing on each other’s shoulders to get out of the water,” Cooper told the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas. Joe Cooper, a sailor aboard the Ommaney Bay, recalled desperately awaiting rescue in the water after abandoning ship.
Battles and naval actions, short biographies, hundreds of illustrations, photos. But the heavy cruiser isn’t just a cool maritime find it’s. This section is dedicated to World War II Warships of all fleets, covering all the belligerents in 1939 and operations from the 1st September 1939 shelling of the Polish Westerplatte by German Battleship Schleswig Holstein up to the Armistice in September 1945. Oldendorf to the adjacent Fletcher-class destroyer USS Burns. More than 72 years after it sank in July 1945, the final resting place of USS Indianapolis has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. As the gasoline- and bomb-fueled inferno spread, an even more dire issue arose - the ship’s torpedo warheads could explode.Īt 5:45 p.m., 45 minutes after the plane tore into the carrier, the order to scuttle the Ommaney Bay was issued by Vice Adm. Other ships rushed to pull alongside the “Big O” and assist with the fires but were quickly beaten back by the searing heat.
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