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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:22 pm 
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His expedition has discovered the wreck of the Lady Lex, 76 years after she was crippled and had to be scuttled after helping secure a crucial strategic victory at Coral Sea, which in turn set the stage for Midway 4 weeks later. She only survived 5 months after Pearl Harbor, but she really left her mark in those 5 months.

https://www.livescience.com/61938-uss-l ... vered.html

11 aircraft, including TBD-1 Devastators (there are no surviving models of this aircraft) have also been found intact and in remarkable condition for having spent 76 years in the ocean.

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Yea pretty cool. I think the Hornet is the last big American carriers from the war whose wreck is yet to be found.


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He has a very nice business card

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Good to hear that. Relatives of the lost sailors now know where their final resting place is.

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Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you fucking bastard!


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Billionaires really are the greatest Americans.

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 Post subject: Re: Paul Allen
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Billionaires really are the greatest Americans.

They truly are, as they've created the companies which produce/invented the devices which allow us to have this message board.

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Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
His expedition has discovered the wreck of the Lady Lex, 76 years after she was crippled and had to be scuttled after helping secure a crucial strategic victory at Coral Sea, which in turn set the stage for Midway 4 weeks later. She only survived 5 months after Pearl Harbor, but she really left her mark in those 5 months.

https://www.livescience.com/61938-uss-l ... vered.html

11 aircraft, including TBD-1 Devastators (there are no surviving models of this aircraft) have also been found intact and in remarkable condition for having spent 76 years in the ocean.


I don't like it. Too many scavengers will be going after these sunken tombs.

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chaspoppcap wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
His expedition has discovered the wreck of the Lady Lex, 76 years after she was crippled and had to be scuttled after helping secure a crucial strategic victory at Coral Sea, which in turn set the stage for Midway 4 weeks later. She only survived 5 months after Pearl Harbor, but she really left her mark in those 5 months.

https://www.livescience.com/61938-uss-l ... vered.html

11 aircraft, including TBD-1 Devastators (there are no surviving models of this aircraft) have also been found intact and in remarkable condition for having spent 76 years in the ocean.


I don't like it. Too many scavengers will be going after these sunken tombs.

It's 2-3 miles below the surface. I don't think there are many scavengers who can get down there.

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