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Paul Allen finds another lost ship
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:16 pm
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An expedition in the South Pacific ocean funded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen has discovered the wreckage of a famous US warship that was attacked by the Japanese during the second world war, claiming more than 600 lives.
The billionaire’s personal search team located the remains of the USS Juneau off the coast of the Solomon Islands on St Patrick’s Day.
The Juneau was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in November 1942, claiming the lives of 687 men, including five brothers known as the Sullivans from Waterloo, Iowa. The men became navy heroes and had a destroyer named after them.
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Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:17 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:17 pm to Jim Rockford
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The Juneau was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in November 1942, claiming the lives of 687 men, including five brothers known as the Sullivans from Waterloo, Iowa. The men became navy heroes and had a destroyer named after them.
That's a pretty significant find
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:18 pm to Jim Rockford
any word on what he plans to do with it?
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:18 pm to Jim Rockford
There should be a lot more ships down there. It wasn't called "Iron Bottom Bay" for nothing.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:19 pm to Jim Rockford
Juneau that’s pretty awesome.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:19 pm to Jim Rockford
Being a Multi-Billionaire looks fun.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:19 pm to upgrayedd
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That's a pretty significant find
there's some good books about that incident, was sunk in sight of other USN ships but they were under orders not to assist and to maintain radio silence
many of the few survivors were lost to Tiger sharks
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:20 pm to Jim Rockford
The Sullivan Brothers is one of the saddest movies. It beats the crap out of Old Yeller.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:21 pm to Jim Rockford
Congrats to Paul and his team! What a Brobdingnagian accomplishment!!
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:21 pm to Jim Rockford
And he takes time to make all those shitty posts on here. Respeck
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:21 pm to CajunSuperJeff
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The Sullivan Brothers
Can you imagine something like that happening today?
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:22 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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"Iron Bottom Bay"
Iron Bottom Sound, but that sinking was not part of that battle
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:23 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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There should be a lot more ships down there. It wasn't called "Iron Bottom Bay" for nothing.
Robert Ballard was being interviewed a few years ago and the interviewer half jokingly asked him about looking for JFK's PT 109. Ballard answered seriously that if you wanted to put enough resources into looking for it, you could probably find what was left of it, with the understanding that there wouldn't be much, since it was mostly wood.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:25 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Can you imagine something like that happening today?
There are regulations against it now, for that very reason.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:26 pm to 777Tiger
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Iron Bottom Sound, but that sinking was not part of that battle
There was a lot of naval action in those islands. A shite-ton of ships went down in multiple battles.
ETA
The First Battle of Savo Island, AKA the Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks
The Second Battle of Savo Island, AKA the Battle of Cape Esperance
The Third Battle of Savo Island, AKA the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
The Fourth Battle of Savo Island, AKA the Battle of Tassafaronga
ETA for the downvoters.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:31 pm to Winston Cup
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any word on what he plans to do with it?
Sunk war ships like this are graves now. He can't do anything with them. This is just an interest of his I guess.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:33 pm to CajunSuperJeff
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The Sullivan Brothers is one of the saddest movies. It beats the crap out of Old Yeller.
Carolines Spine had a song about them
Sullivan
Heartbreaking ending
USS Juneau memorial is downtown by the fishermans memorial here in JNU
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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There are regulations against it now, for that very reason.
I know, just thinking about the internet ramifications of news like that.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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There are regulations against it now, for that very reason.
I figured there had to be. That's awful.
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