Reports today confirm that theUSS Lexingtonwhich had been sunk during the Second World War (1942) has been found.
The team working with Paul Allen using the research vessel, the R/V Petrel, located the ship about two miles below the surface and more than 500 miles off the eastern coast of Australia.
“The USSΒ Lexington and another carrier, the USS Yorktown,Β which also visited theVirgin Islands,fought against three Japanese aircraft carriers fromΒ May 4th to the 8th, 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first ever between carriers.”
Some 216 crewmen were killed and 2,735 were evacuated.βΒ
I wonder if Fred, Teddy or Bob would have still been with the ship twelve years later, and if so, whether they survived?