Recent Aircraft And Carriers Discovered By R/V Petrel
Author(s): David Reams; Adrian Hunt
Year: 2020
Summary
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.
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Recent Aircraft And Carriers Discovered By R/V Petrel. David Reams, Adrian Hunt. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457206)
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Keywords
General
aircraft
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aircraft carriers
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discoveries
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Petrel
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research vessel
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Underwater
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USS Hornet
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USS Lexington
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USS Wasp
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Vulcan
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WW2
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
World War 2
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1040