The U.S. Navy says it has identified the wreck of the World War II aircraft carrier, the USS Ommaney Bay, destroyed by a Japanese suicide plane in 1945.
About 5 p.m. on Jan. 4, 1945, in the Sulu Sea off the Philippines, the Japanese plane crashed into the carrier and touched off an inferno of blazing gasoline, exploding bombs and warheads that claimed the lives of 95 Americans.
Last year, the wreck of the destroyer USS Samuel B. Roberts was found in over 22,000 feet of water off the Philippine island of Samar. Wreckage of long-lost WW II ship, sunken with its Native American skipper and half its crew, identified “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,” he said.The command’s Underwater Archaeology Branch used a combination of underwater survey and video information provided by Sea Scan Survey and DPT Scuba, two Australian diving firms, to positively identify the wreck.
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