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WWII ship used for atomic bomb tests found ‘amazingly intact’

04/21/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The USS Independence aircraft carrier, which operated during World War II, has been located about a half mile underwater off California’s Farallon Islands. Using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) dubbed the Echo Ranger and a 3D-imaging sonar system, researchers have…

150 years later, Union sailors from USS Monitor to be buried at Arlington

03/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The bodies were found when the USS Monitor’s rusty gun turret was raised from the ocean floor. ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a…