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RV Petrel has been busy... Kaga, Akagi, Indianapolis, and now either the Johnston or Hoel almost 75 years exactly after its loss. Cant post a link on my phone but it showed up on Fox...

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They're pretty sure it's JOHNSTON based on the position and lack of splinter camouflage patterns on the pieces they've found.

 

They also found ST. LO. I was hoping they'd find SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, HOEL and GAMBIER BAY as well. They said they want to go back and confirm whether or not this is JOHNSTON or not.

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Vahe Demirjian
On 11/1/2019 at 5:10 PM, Redleg13a said:

They're pretty sure it's JOHNSTON based on the position and lack of splinter camouflage patterns on the pieces they've found.

 

They also found ST. LO. I was hoping they'd find SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, HOEL and GAMBIER BAY as well. They said they want to go back and confirm whether or not this is JOHNSTON or not.

The identification of the shipwreck as the USS Johnston was confirmed in March 2021:

https://www.history.navy.mil/news-and-events/news/2021/wreckage-confirmed-as-heroic-uss-johnston--dd-557-.html

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They had better do it before the Chinese harvest the steel of the wrecks

 

Steve

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