Wreckage of sunken warship that helped win World War 2 found
- 7 years ago
PHILIPPINE SEA, NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN — The USS Indianapolis, a long lost American World War 2 cruiser, was found in the North Pacific last week by a civilian research expedition led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The cruiser sailed from California to the island of Tinian in the East Pacific carrying parts critical to the completion of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb. It was en route from Guam to the Philippines when it was struck by torpedoes from a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945.
The surviving 316 men were rescued after a patrol plane spotted them around five days later.
The wreckage of the vessel was discovered 5,500 meters deep at the bottom of the Philippines Sea, according to a post on the Allen's official website.
The cruiser sailed from California to the island of Tinian in the East Pacific carrying parts critical to the completion of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb. It was en route from Guam to the Philippines when it was struck by torpedoes from a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945.
The surviving 316 men were rescued after a patrol plane spotted them around five days later.
The wreckage of the vessel was discovered 5,500 meters deep at the bottom of the Philippines Sea, according to a post on the Allen's official website.