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Recent Aircraft And Carriers Discovered By R/V Petrel (2020)
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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An overview of aircraft carriers discovered by R/V Petrel in 2018 and 2019. These discoveries include the USS Lexington, USS Wasp, USS Hornet and wrecked aircraft associated with each. These historic WW2 carriers were discovered at depths ranging from 4,000 to greater than 5,500 meters in the Pacific Ocean.