Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Finds Lost WWII Ship USS Indianapolis

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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Finds Lost WWII Ship USS Indianapolis
By Leigh Hedger/ The Indianapolis Star/ USA Today Network/ usatoday.com

""We've located the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea at 5500m below the sea."

That tweet from entrepreneur and billionaire Paul Allen around 12:20 p.m. Saturday confirmed what many have been searching for since the ship was sunk on July 30, 1945.

Allen, who is leading a 13-person team on his 250-foot research ship, the R/V Petrel, said the wreckage was found at a depth of more than 18,000 feet...."

(Photo: Photo illustration)


Richard

 

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Wreckage of U.S.S. Indianapolis, Lost for 72 Years, Is Found in the Pacific
By Chris Buckley/ Asia Pacific/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com

"In the 72 years since the Indianapolis, a United States Navy cruiser, sank about 12 minutes after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, the disaster has inspired controversy, dozens of books, a play and a famous scene in “Jaws.”

But the resting place of the Indianapolis had remained a mystery.

That was until Saturday, when a team led by Paul G. Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, announced that it had found unmistakable wreckage of the Indianapolis 18,000 feet deep in the Philippine Sea, rekindling memories of the Navy’s worst disaster at sea...."

The cruiser Indianapolis off Mare Island, Calif., on July 10, 1945, weeks before it was sunk by a Japanese torpedo. Researchers have found its wreckage. Credit United States Navy


Richard

 

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Sunk that deep and that long ago ... may the families have their peace; the dead should stay undisturbed and entombed.