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USS New Orleans lost its bow in WWII but kept fighting. Now the wreckage has been found.
The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled USS Lexington sailors from the water during the Battle of the Coral Sea and screened the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway.
A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...
The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...
During the Battle of Tassafaronga, the USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese torpedo that detonated its forward magazines, killing 182 men and ripping away a large forward section of the cruiser.
The bow, which fell to a depth of 2,214 feet, had been unaccounted for since Nov. 30, 1942, when a Japanese torpedo detonated the ship’s forward magazines during the Battle of Tassafaronga, the ...
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