World War II carrier “Lady Lex” found 2 miles under sea by Allen expedition
Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has put his money into many passion pursuits. And one of those has been underwater archaeology, of a sort: finding ships sunk during World War II. Last August, Allen's R/V Petrel discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, the cruiser that delivered components of the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan to close the war. A previous Allen expedition in 2015 with his personal yacht Octopus recovered the ship's bell from the HMS Hood, the Royal Navy cruiser sunk by the German battleship Bismarck with the loss of over 1400 men, and surveyed the wrecks of "Ironbottom Sound" off Guadalcanal—the site of massive losses by the Allied navies during the long battle for that island.
Now, the Petrel has located the USS Lexington—the aircraft carrier that, along with the USS Yorktown, fought the first-ever carrier duel with the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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