US warship Edsall Lost after Pearl Harbor Attack Found 80 Years Later ... by Accident

The USS Edsall was attacked by the Japanese in the Indian Ocean shortly after Pearl where she was sunk and lost for the last 80 years until recently when she was discovered by the Australian navy as they were doing unspecified reconnaissance in the area , the 314ft destroyer first came under attack from Japanese warships who repeatedly tried to shell her but the evasive maneuvers undertaken by the crew saw their efforts come to nothing , it's reported a Japanese combatant described the Edsall as a "Dancing Mouse" as it evaded their shells , it was only when 26 carrier dive bombers entered the fight she took a fatal hit and the Edsall was lost with all on board.

This image of the USS Edsall was released by the Australian Navy a few days ago showing the ship in its final resting place.

"Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers before being attacked by 26 carrier dive bombers, taking only one fatal hit," said Caroline Kennedy, the US ambassador to Australia. On the day it was sunk, the USS Edsall was shelled by Japanese warships but managed to evade them using extreme manoeuvres and smokescreens - which led one Japanese combatant to describe the Edsall as a "Dancing Mouse".

The Australian navy made the surprise discovery as it was conducting an unrelated and unspecified mission in the area.

Its staff used "advanced robotic and autonomous systems normally used for hydrographic survey capabilities to locate the USS Edsall on the seabed," Australia's navy chief, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, said.

He paid tribute to the US ship, saying it "holds a special place in our naval history".

"The USS Edsall served valiantly during World War II, most notably in the early Pacific campaigns. She operated alongside Australian war ships protecting our shores, and played a role in sinking the Japanese submarine I124 off Darwin."
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a reply to: gortex

Great post mate

a reply to: gortex

The fact that the wreckage was discovered sometime last year, but delayed in the news until this week is quite bizarre to me.

Quite an interesting read none the less, but still quite odd.

Wonder what they aren't telling us about it...

a reply to: gortex

That photo is spooky to me. IT looks like the ship is on fire and smoking. Almost like the equipment picked up residual images from the past.

But S&F for the cool post!

a reply to: PorkChop96

Because it takes time to confirm that it was Edsall and not something else. They found her on sonar but had to positively identify her. That's not something that's done on the same week, or even month. It was probably months before they got another expedition together to get more detailed analysis done.

originally posted by: gortex
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This image of the USS Edsall was released by the Australian Navy a few days ago showing the ship in its final resting place.

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That pic just ain't right.

The light-source, the angle of the shadow compared to the camera, the weird sandy background, that MH370 that isn't there, ...

originally posted by: KnowItAllKnowNothin

originally posted by: gortex
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This image of the USS Edsall was released by the Australian Navy a few days ago showing the ship in its final resting place.

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That pic just ain't right.

The light-source, the angle of the shadow compared to the camera, the weird sandy background, that MH370 that isn't there, ...

I thought that the article said they used thermal imaging from MH370 as it was being teleported while crashing.....

a reply to: theatreboy

Yeah. I kinda got that too.
Like they were saying something that they weren't, in between what they didn't say, and what wasn't implied.

a reply to: PorkChop96

Wonder what they aren't telling us about it...

It was a modern destroyer.

WWII never happened, the simulation didn’t start until 1963. Every artifact prior than that is planted, like the dinosaurs 🦕 . This one was a glitch in the matrix, so they had to postpone their findings while the code was scrubbed and corrected.

a reply to: KnowItAllKnowNothin

It’s not a pic in the common sense. That is the image put together by the sonar on the ship that found her.

I agree, that before the news were given, it had to be confirmation that it was the right wreckage, Is amazing that they found it after all these years.

I agree that the pictures look weird, but nerveless very interesting.

a reply to: gortex


Several survivors were pulled from the water only to be murdered by the Japanese, along with survivors from other ships .......

TextThe fate of Edsall's survivors
Japanese Imperial Navy officers aboard the cruiser Chikuma several years later reported that a number of men may have survived the sinking of Edsall as they were found in the water on liferafts, cutters or clinging to debris. However, due to a submarine alert, the Japanese only stopped long enough to rescue a handful before they received orders to retire, leaving the others to perish in the Indian Ocean.

Onboard Chikuma, the survivors were interrogated by their captors; the name of their ship was recorded as "the old destroyer E-do-soo-ru". After a few days, the details of these interrogations were provided to the other ships of Nagumo's Kido Butai during their return journey. There is some suggestion that the cruiser Tone may have picked up a survivor or two as well, but there is no confirming evidence of this. The Americans were held on Chikuma for the next ten days before returning to the Japanese force's advance base on 11 March 1942.

Mass grave
On 21 September 1946, several mass graves were opened in a remote locale in the East Indies, over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from where Edsall had disappeared. Two graves contained 34 decapitated bodies, among which were the remains of six Edsall crewmen and what are thought to be five USAAF personnel from Langley, along with Javanese, Chinese, and Dutch merchant sailors from the Dutch merchant-ship Modjokerto, sunk on the same day and in the same general area as Edsall. The American bodies were reinterred in U.S. cemeteries between December 1949 and March 1950. War crimes trials conducted in 1946–1948 concerning other murders that occurred in or near Kendari by IJN personnel recorded fragmentary information about the killings of Edsall survivors, but were not recognized as such by Allied investigators, and were not pursued.

Not so "odd," when you factor in the fact that the UFO live in the waters as well as in the air. Our services are trying to gain data and info as we move into a very troubling future. The eighty years of lying to us and themselves about the potential threat to our world has consequences to that denial.

a reply to: gortex

As always interesting and smashing post gortex

Seems to have gone down in one piece as well.

Given the fact that she went down with all hands on board.

I would have thought one of the dive bombers may have breached her main magazine with a lucky type 99 and broke her back.

I wonder what the damage was that made her sink so fast?

I'm glad they found the Edsall. A very tragic story really from WWII, RIP to the brave US Navy sailors lost.

What I find interesting about this story (beyond finding Edsall) is...what was the Australian Navy looking for when their sophisticated "advanced robotic and autonomous systems normally used for hydrographic survey" gear located the Edsall?

I checked the location, and it's well outside Australian territorial waters, and that's not your average mine clearing / submarine detection gear. Plus, given it was the Royal Australian Navy doing the searching, this would suggest whatever the target was is of military interest. So, I wonder what it was?

The first thought which jumped into my head was, this location is at the very northern most edge of the MH 370 search arc. When I overlayed the search arc, sure enough, it matched right up. So, I'm wondering if the RAN was really looking for MH 370?

Whatever they were looking for, that type of equipment is really only used to survey (in detail) the ocean floor, so they were either mapping (which is entirely possible), or they were looking for something like an object on the bottom. I haven't heard of any Indonesian subs going missing lately, so that seems unlikely. Nor Russian assets. Nor have any sensitive spacecraft deorbited in this location that I am aware of. So, I wonder if MH 370 was their target?

How does a ship that size, get bombed, sinks, and lands right side up fully intact?

a reply to: 38181

She wasn’t hit by a lot of ordnance. She took a 500 pound bomb, and a near miss that damaged her. There’s a photo of a detonation near her bow that lifted it out of the water, and she capsized not long after.