It is the latest in a series of recent discoveries, aided by technology, of sunken World War II warships. On Monday, the Naval History and Heritage Command at the Washington Navy Yard announced that the wreck of the Big O had been positively identified on the bottom – 78 years after its smoking hulk had been abandoned and purposely sunk by another American ship. 4, 1945, in the Sulu Sea off the Philippines, the Japanese plane crashed into the carrier and touched off an inferno of blazing gasoline, exploding bombs and warheads that claimed the lives of 95 Americans. Young, had taken extra precautions and posted more lookouts to guard against kamikaze attacks, no one saw the incoming enemy until it was too late.Ībout 5 p.m. The big Japanese suicide plane had slipped unseen through the confusion of the battle and was headed straight for the American aircraft carrier USS Ommaney Bay.Įven though the skipper of the “Big O,” Capt.
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