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WRECKAGE FROM THE USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has announced.
The wreckage was found on Sunday by the team’s research vessel, the R/V Petrel, some 3,000 metres (two miles) below the surface, more than 800 kilometres (500 miles) off the eastern coast of Australia.
The search team released pictures and video of the wreckage of the Lexington, one of the first ever US aircraft carriers, and some of the planes which went down with the ship.
Remarkably preserved aircraft could be seen on the seabed, bearing the five-pointed star insignia of the US Army Air Forces on their wings and fuselage.
On one aircraft, an emblem of the cartoon character Felix the Cat can be seen along with four miniature Japanese flags, presumably depicting ‘kills’.
The search team also released pictures and video of parts of the ship, including a nameplate and anti-aircraft guns covered in decades of slime.
200 crew members died
The USS Lexington and another US aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown, fought against three Japanese aircraft carriers from 4-8 May 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first ever between carriers.
The badly damaged Lexington, nicknamed Lady Lex, was deliberately sunk by another US warship at the conclusion of the battle.
More than 200 members of the crew died in the battle but most were rescued by other US vessels before the Lexington sank.
Admiral Harry Harris, who heads up the US military’s Pacific Command — and whose father was one of the sailors evacuated — paid tribute to the successful research effort.
“As the son of a survivor of the USS Lexington, I offer my congratulations to Paul Allen and the expedition crew of Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel for locating the ‘Lady Lex’, sunk nearly 76 years ago at the Battle of Coral Sea,” Harris said in a statement.
“We honor the valor [sic] and sacrifice of the ‘Lady Lex’s’ Sailors — and all those Americans who fought in World War II — by continuing to secure the freedoms they won for all of us,” he said.
The USS Lexington was carrying 35 aircraft when it went down.
The search team said that 11 planes had been found, including Douglas TBD-1 Devastators, Douglas SBD-3 Dauntlesses and Grumman F4F-3 Wildcats.
Search teams led by Allen have discovered the wreckage of a number of historic warships including the USS Indianapolis, a US heavy cruiser which sank in the Philippine Sea in July 1945 after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.
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The American government aren’t stupid they know full well that this is going to incite hate and attacks which will give them reason to continue this war on terror which has become a vicious circle. Many of these suspects have never faced trial or were properly charged it’s a complete farce. These men were taken from their family’s, beaten , tortured and scared for life. The only terrorist attack that I see here was the one perpetrated on these innocent men by the American government.
I wonder how many 9/11′s they stopped with this. Not condoning torture but you have to way up how many lives may have been saved.
It’s more a case of how many more 9/11′s have they created with their torture policy of “suspects”. If they were tried and convicted criminals then they might have some justification but the widespread use of torture on anybody that they detain has created uncountable new martyrs for Islam.
how many 9/11 have the U.S. committed in the middle east with their state sponsored terrorism
Re Michael
Well since the CIA had many of the 9/11 ‘suspects’ under surveillance, were providing them with funds and had all their communications tapped and fully intercepted I’m not sure what you are talking about. Them again from your comment, I’m pretty sure you don’t know what your talking about either.
Michael, just google tower 7, or in fact look at the records of the stock market from September 10th and you won’t be long finding out who really benefitted from 9-11.
911 was an inside job and the cover up is being exposed piece by piece. Explain how wtc7 came down..
The controlled mainstream media is a huge reason that the truth about 9/11 has been kept from the public. The false flag op that was 9/11 needs to be exposed and a proper investigation conducted, the people that died that day and their family’s deserve it.
See, there you go spoiling an original argument with your whack job conspiracies. Scary thing is is that someday there really might be a government engineered conspiracy but people will be so tired of hearing about inside jobs and black flag ops that no one will listen. You are actually doing a disservice to your cause by crying wolf constantly.
You should find what you need to know about building 7 here:
http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm
(You’ll also find your other 9/11 conspiracy theories explained in a rational evidence-based way here).
How come no one who was involved in theses conspiracy theories have come out and spoke about them?in all these false flag black flag ops or whatever you guys call them why had no one broke silence
@ Michael McTague
In effect you are saying that the ends justify the means. That presents a moral dilemma. If you, or one of you family, an innocent, were caught up in a sweep and thrown into a concentration camp and tortured, what would be you attitude then? Would you still hold to your opinion?
@Glen
(Yawn)
The worrying aspect about this report is it only covers the CIA which is tiny compared to the NSA and it only covers narrow aspects of the CIA clandestine activities. This 100 figure of tortured is not even the top of the top of the iceberg. We know US intelligence services rounded up a random 1,000 Muslims in the US immediately after 9/11 hoping to find something. They beat the crap out of the 1,000 innocents and held them for nearly 80 days.
We know the US practices torture(this report), we know the US is the biggest threat to world peace being a war mongering country(read William Blum), we know the US operates the world’s largest terrorist program(UN commissioners describing drone attacks as illegal and the use of only phone metadata as ludicrous), we know the US is an oligarchy as a major recent Harvard study has shown, we know habeus corpus has been stripped from US citizens with provisions signed into the NDAA, yet despite all this the media will still talk about the moral obligation of the West or the US to fight these terrorists or to stop that country from torturing, it’s absolutely insane.
The NSA do a far less exotic job then the cia. They don’t have spys or anything like that. They’re mostly just code breakers, wire tappers and hackers.
It’s the DIA who are the big guys in the intel community in the US. Five times the size of the CIA hardly spoken about in media and running groups like 97 Echo ect..
No sympathy for any of them, the Muslim religion is right now the biggest threat in the world to us all.
@O’Duigain
Do not blame ordinary Muslims for the crimes of a minority of their co-religionists. Many Americans and Europeans have been killed in attacks carried out by Sunni and Shia extremists but most of the victims of such attacks are themselves Muslims. Ask Malala Yousufzai.
No the entire religion
Obviously the law does not,apply to everyone,in that country,if it does,then why are the perpetrators,not in jail.
To help stop murder, genocide, torture, and human rights abuses America engaged in murder, genocide, torture, and human rights abuses to show everyone that is was wrong.
It’s the same way the government there murders people to show people how murdering people is wrong.
More of a ‘do as we say, not as we do’ sort of thing.
Oh yes this is going to make Muslim extremists hate America.
@Bruce
Islamic extremists have always hated America. If they launch attacks on US embassies, the Marines will wipe the floor with them.
Did you not get the sarcasm in my comment
@Bruce
I do now. Apologies.
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Wallace and grommit will be on there way to Shannon airport to check more planes after this report.
Carrie Mathison must be very peeved about the Senate’s report.
“Not condoning torture but” the words after “but” generally contradict the words before it.? Example I am not a racist but.
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