Samuel B Roberts Found

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By a Texan...

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Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII.

The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water.

Texan financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo, who owns a deep-diving submersible, discovered the "Sammy B" battered but largely intact.

The vessel is famed for a heroic final stand against the Japanese.
https://news.yahoo.com/uss-samuel-b-roberts-worlds-142237965.html
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dcbowers
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If you have never read James Hornfischer's "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors", you should.

https://a.co/d/5gr4VsY

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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur' s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge into history.
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dcbowers said:

If you have never read James Hornfischer's "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors", you should.

https://a.co/d/5gr4VsY

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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur' s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge into history.

I second this recommendation. Excellent book.
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Almost a full kilometer deeper than the Johnston, which was also pretty recently found.
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Great! Ordered!
JABQ04
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Be cool to locate the Hoel and Gambier Bay as well
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