RE: Lady Lex Found on the Bottom of The Coral Sea
March 6, 2018 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2018 at 1:29 pm by Succubus.)
(March 6, 2018 at 1:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Lex was pretty well disabled by torpedo hits and then caught fire. Akagi and Kaga were also set ablaze by dive bombers. Our torpedo planes were shit at that stage of the war, virtually flying coffins. Lex's hull was built at a time when the effectiveness of Japanese torpedoes was unknown.
I seem to recall a special where they went looking for the sunken carriers of Midway. They did find Yorktown and one of the Jap carriers, Kaga I think, but they could not find Akagi, Hiryu and Soryu,
I remember that documentary the surface ship had crew member of both Yorktown and one of the Japanese carriers on board. They said a few words and laid wreaths, quite moving.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.