{"id":3760,"date":"2019-02-14T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:25:00","slug":"wreck-of-wwii-aircraft-carrier-uss-hornet-discovered-in-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"Wreck of WWII aircraft carrier USS Hornet discovered in South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6695955\/Wreck-carrier-USS-Hornet-discovered-South-Pacific.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=1490\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/9729494-6695955-image-m-22_1549992493365.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research vessel Petrel, owned by the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, discovered the Hornet three miles under the ocean surface off the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Richard Nowatzki, now 95, was an 18-year-old gunner on the Hornet, and watched via remote camera link as the remote sub discovered his old station at a gun turret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If you go down to my locker, there&#8217;s 40 bucks in it, you can have it!&#8217; he told <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/uss-hornet-wreckage-world-war-two-warship-discovered\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6695955\/Wreck-carrier-USS-Hornet-discovered-South-Pacific.html\">Wreck of WWII aircraft carrier USS Hornet discovered in South Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"https:\/\/antzinpantz.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antz-in-Pantz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research vessel Petrel, owned by the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, discovered the Hornet three miles under the ocean surface off the Solomon Islands. Richard Nowatzki, now 95, was an 18-year-old gunner on the Hornet, and watched via remote camera link as the remote sub discovered his old station at a gun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wreck of WWII aircraft carrier USS Hornet discovered in South Pacific<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}