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Paul Allen Finds Long-Lost World War II Cruiser, the USS Indianapolis (usni.org)
An anonymous reader quotes the US Naval Institute News:
Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship's wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday -- more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface. Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, led a search team, assisted by historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C., to accomplish what past searches had failed to do -- find Indianapolis, considered the last great naval tragedy of World War II.
"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling," said Allen in a statement provided to US Naval Institute News on Saturday... "I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming"... Allen's 13-person expedition team, on the R/V Petrel is in the process of surveying the full site and will conduct a live tour of the wreckage in the next few weeks. They are complying with U.S. law and respecting the sunken ship as a war grave, taking care not to disturb the site.
Paul Allen has shared some photos from the discovery on Twitter.
The ship had delivered components for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima just four days before it was sunk. Only 317 of its 1,197-man crew survived, making it the worst at-sea disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy.
"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling," said Allen in a statement provided to US Naval Institute News on Saturday... "I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming"... Allen's 13-person expedition team, on the R/V Petrel is in the process of surveying the full site and will conduct a live tour of the wreckage in the next few weeks. They are complying with U.S. law and respecting the sunken ship as a war grave, taking care not to disturb the site.
Paul Allen has shared some photos from the discovery on Twitter.
The ship had delivered components for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima just four days before it was sunk. Only 317 of its 1,197-man crew survived, making it the worst at-sea disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy.
Go away towelhead. We don't like your kind around here.
From TFA: Only 317 of its 1,197-man crew survived, making it the worst disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy
1197 - 317 = 880 dead
1177 died on 12/7/1941 on the USS Arizona.
So the USS Indianapolis was not the worst.
The ship is considered a war grave and protected by various country-specific laws. Unfortunately, "scavengers ain't got no respect."
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
If I remember correctly there have been various European countries that have done this before. Greek's Alexander, Roman empire, Spanish empire, English empire, etc. etc. etc.
to you fair Spanish ladies
Oh look, a chest thumping troll using "We" cos he's too much of a fucking spineless troll to say "I".
Go back to fucking your sister in the trailer park.
Did the crazy old lady throw a diamond into the ocean over the wreck?
If the user is a troll, why did you bite? Why couldn't you simply ignore the troll?
Translation: "I'm Paul Allen!! Pay attention to MEEEEE!!" *throws chair*
Guess where it was... behind the sofa. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
..and then Americans can retaliate by replacing all food exports to Europe with Spam. Just as a friendly reminder.
If you are really serious, then you should rather piss on the graves of politicians - not soldiers.
Hey asswipe, don't you need to go plant some flowers at Auschwitz, Srebrenica or along the Berlin Wall?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
We delivered the Bomb. The Hiroshima bomb.
Or perhaps Peter Benchley...
[the three men are comparing their scars]
Brody: What's that one?
Quint: What?
Brody: That one, there, on your arm.
Quint: Oh, uh, that's a tattoo, I got that removed.
Hooper: Don't tell me, don't tell me..."Mother."
[he roars with laughter]
Hooper: What is it -
[Quint solemnly clamps a hand on Hooper's arm]
Quint: Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis.
[Hooper immediately stops laughing]
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh.
[he pauses and takes a drink]
Quint: They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.
[he pauses]
Quint: Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosun's mate. I thought he was asleep. Reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
[he pauses, smiles, and raises his glass]
Quint: Anyway... we delivered the bomb.
full scene
HD and short
here's to swimming with bowlegged wimmen
Pat each other on your backs and congratulate yourselves for helping the greatest and oldest evil in this world to succeed with their equally diabolical and old plans.
The Zoroastrians?
Are you still sore because you got your testicles shaved by one?
If you don't like someone, say they're a Neo Nazi, the Internet will handle the rest.
Robert Shaw
May not have been the most deadly catastrophe for the US Navy, but certainly must be one of the most terrifying.
I'm sure some of the crew were racists or homophobes, so they probably deserved it. Paul Allen should be ashamed of himself for finding it and, I assume, will be providing the coordinates so that embarrassment can be suitably destroyed.
...with white people being genocided both in the USA and in Europe.
[citation needed]
Seriously. What the living fuck are you talking about?!!
I'm white. I don't have anything in particular against white supremacists, personally... but God, I fucking hate their tired bullshit. How do they generate it in such massive amounts, and so obviously incorrect and... generally retarded? And I am really sick and tired of this. Show me evidence of this "Jewish Police State," or one lousy example of any genocide of white people any where in the world, any time in all of history, by any group even remotely Jewish, just one single example. Oh, wait, as long as there is hate, we don't need truth. Most of all, it seems, the white supremacists hate history, hate the truth.
The Indianapolis monologue by Robert Shaw in "Jaws" was the best scene out of the whole movie. I was always fascinated by that story. Nice to see the story of the USS Indianapolis concluded 42 years after the movie.
Is that flying carpet cleaning? Sadly, I have no flying carpets around.
Ezekiel 23:20
As a European, I'm sick and tired of American aggression ... I would like to indicate my displeasure for American military aggression by traveling to the United States and urinating on the graves of soldiers.
You don't have to travel to America, there are plenty of American soldiers buried on the continent of Europe. They died so that you have the right to make your childish, myopic and ill-informed "statement".
Without the US, there wouldn't have been any Berlin Wall. However, even with the US, there was still Auschwitz.
Ezekiel 23:20
It's as much fun to bite as it is to troll.
We don't need any Europeans pissing on the graves of American soldiers. We already have President Trump doing it.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
http://www.latimes.com/politic...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Let me send you a genie
You are beyond help.
How do you do a live tour of the wreckage without disturbing it?
You don't enter the wreck, you stay outside. You do not remove anything from the site, you take photos/video.
As a European, I'm sick and tired of American aggression. It is ruining the world, and it's time we put an end to it. I would like to indicate my displeasure for American military aggression by traveling to the United States and urinating on the graves of soldiers. If enough intelligent Europeans join me in this protest, perhaps we can show the Americans just how repugnant their aggression is to the rest of the world.
And guess what? If you want to piss on the graves of US soldiers, there are 100,000 US soldiers buried in Europe - where they died for YOUR freedom.
I notice you didn't post this in German or Russian.
YOU'RE FUCKING WELCOME!!
I don't think you understand the meaning of 'philanthropist'.
Paul Alan is indeed a great did source of funding. But not philanthropic funding.
What do you think is the meaning of "philanthropist"? That's a real question; I'm curious to know.
There is the time he was listed as "Philanthropist of the year"
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/guide-to-individual-donors/paul-allen.html
Here's his foundation: http://www.pgafamilyfoundation.org/default.aspx
It looks like philanthropy to me.
America was attacked by Japan, how is this an example of American aggression?
The disgusting part of this disaster was the way the US Navy persecuted Captain McVay, railroading him in a court martial with trumped-up charges shown to be nonsense by testimony of the Japanese sub captain, and finally driving McVay to suicide. He was the final victim, 24 years delayed. It took an act of Congress to force the Navy, kicking and screaming, to finally clear his record of all findings of wrongdoing, 56 years too late.
The mismanagement of the stupidly, needlessly, and literally carelessly delayed search and rescue of survivors, as day after day drifting in the water dehydrating, starving, going mad, and being picked off by sharks, is also a huge part of the disaster. Something very similar happened at the Battle off Samar, in which hundreds of sailors from a small group of destroyers and escort carriers, after being pulverized by a huge Japanese battle fleet, were also left to drift for days, with many needless drowning and shark bite deaths.
You're feeding a troll, people...
While the moslems continue to change "European lifestyle", making more and more areas "off limits" to non moslems. With their birth rate like rabbits, they will completely OWN Europe in a couple decades. Once you Europeans figure it out and the war starts, we'll just stay here. Oh, thanks to help from the USA and others, we pulled your sorry azz out of TWO world wars.
You're feeding a troll, people...
Also, they are feeding a troll that is unlikely to be European as he claims, but more likely is an American teenager.
I don't mean to be morbid, but but the crew of the USS Arizona was bombed and drown. By all accounts of those that have witnessed such kinds of deaths, though death is rarely comfortable, the terror and suffering of those sailors was relatively brief.
The crew of the USS Indianapolis, the vast majority of them, were eaten by sharks, estimated at times at the rate of a hundred men per hour.
I don't think you can overlook this and just by body count and pedantically claim one disaster was worse than the other.
Will Allen pillage this site?
"Deposed under oath, Jody Allen and several former security officers invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination when asked about smuggling ivory out of Africa or penguin skulls out of Antarctica.
But the lawsuit did reveal that in 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture destroyed 72 pounds of giraffe bones that Vulcan had "mistakenly imported into the U.S." without a permit. It's not illegal to import giraffe bones, but you have to check the right boxes.
"
I think you should stop talking and come on over to Arlington and get to it; you'll see some American aggression up close, should improve you a bit.
Germany declared war on the United States Dec. 11th 1941. That is one of the contributing factors to you being "free".
So fuck off little boy.
Exactly. Europeans hate it when someone else gets in on their thing. They hate sharing with others.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I think you'll have trouble finding enough intelligent Europeans to even consider making an impact. Three or four just ain't going to cut it.
Not that the material was fresh but the timing must have been right to derail this many comments this fast. Please do recall the point of trolling is not to make a point but to cause others to change their focus.
LOL. Historical facts hurts, it seems. No wonder everyone thinks Americans are stupid, they just will not acknowledge facts.
I bet the person downvoting that also thinks that the Germans in WWI were Nazis too...
And if the US had stayed out of "the Great War" or at least moderated the French at Versailles, WWII wouldn't have happened. But you choose to get involved the first time, so it serves you right that you had to come back and help cleaning up the mess you contributed to creating the first time.
You take your haughty little self-righteous "You're free thanks to us" spiel and shove it up your arrogant little ass.
America was trying to strangle Japan to halt its expansion. You needn't drop bombs on a country to wage war with it, provided you can tell half the world to not do business with someone.
For reference, see Cuba.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If I recall, there wasn't a US involved at that time. The US withdrew from the world after WW1 (see G. Washington's recommendations), and had to be dragged kicking and screaming (and have a major naval base shot up) to return. May still have been an Auschwitz/etc., but that's another speculative history project.
America was trying to strangle Japan to halt its expansion. You needn't drop bombs on a country to wage war with it, provided you can tell half the world to not do business with someone.
For reference, see Cuba.
After atrocities done by Japan such as the Rape of Nanking became well known, America was put into a position of being a partner of the slaughter of Chinese people and further Japan war-making, or cutting off Japan's war supplies.
In an unusual move, the USA chose doing what was right over making money.
Refusing to do trade with someone is not an act of war. A blockade is an act of war, but the USA didn't do a blockade.
If the US had stayed out of the Great War, all of Europe would be speaking German today.
We have an authentic genuine nazi, George Soros. The internet doesn't seem to care. He'll even tell you that the best years of his life was when he was with the nazis. Just check out his 20/20 interview, he says that. We don't need to look at Confederates, we have an actual living scumbag right there. However it seems he has a lot to do with their funding.
Oh noes. And today we speak English most of the time when speaking to someone from another country. Foreign language $Y instead of foreign language $X. FREEDOM!!! Sigh.
Seriously. If "you'd be speaking German if the Kaiser had won" is the worst you can come up with, you need more imagination, and if you think "not speaking German" is a sign of being "free" you need to have your head examined.
Why bother coming to the US? There's a far more readily accessible graveyard of American soldiers in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
Anonymous Coward tells Anonymous Coward to go fuck his sister. Is he supposed to fuck Anonymous Coward's sister or Anonymous Coward's sister? Maybe they have the same sister.
Can't Paul Allen just fly around the world in a hot air balloon like any self-respecting billionaire? Having some billionaire prick prance around like he's a hero is kind of nauseating. Hey Paul, we still need soldiers on the front line. How 'bout you get your ass to Syria and put in some time "honoring the brave warriors" or whatever you're doing by sitting in the same fox hole for a couple years.
*vomits*
https://www.al-awa2el.com/%D8%...
Complaining about American aggression on a story about WWII? Hmm. I wonder which side you'd have been on.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.