let s go back and you can see it better on this map. literally you can see ford island surrounded by the pacific fleet and japanese planes attacked at 7:55 sunday morning and they focused their fire on those battle ships. torpedoes hit the west virginia and oklahoma, which capsized trapping 400 and killing 400 sailors inside. the california, maryland, tennessee, then the pennsylvania, nevada and utah, all damaged or destroyed. the arizona was cut in half when a dive bomb penetrated its armored deck and exploded its ammunition below. 1200 killed, 900 of those sailors were never recovered. the utah and arizona today remain exactly where they sank, a watery grave and final resting place for those who died. i saw seamen jumping in the water covered with oil on fire. most of them died in the water.
from the capital jakarta authorities have asked families of the dead to try to identify their loved ones by looking at some of the belongings retrieved from the sea. plucked from a watery grave. the family are beside themselves villagers are on hand to support them as they grieve. a funeral of one of the victims of lion air flight j.t. six one zero but there s still no clear answer about why the plane crashed on monday. the investigation continues much more of the plane remains hidden beneath the sea surface. but since monday divers have located some of the body of the boeing seven three seven and now they found its black box one of the salvage teams said they dug deep and found it buried in the debra on the sea floor. salvaging the box from the wreckage means
your free decision guide. call a licensed humana sales agent today. shepard: the jet was brand new, delivered in august. now, it and all 189 onboard are in a watery grave. investigators say the big jet hit the water at such a high speed it disintegrated upon impact. after taking off from indonesia, jakarta on monday. divers have not been able to find the passenger jet s main section, and only bits and pieces. to give you a sense of what they re looking for, this type of plane is a boeing 737 max 8 passenger jet. it s about 43 yards long, nearly half the length of a football field. benjamin hall is following the investigation from london. ben? well, hi. they re not going to find out any more until they find the all-important black boxes, what they re focused on at the moment. they say they have heard a
the air fleet. daily they go up and daily they land. that was certainly the hope on march 11th, 1944 when lieutenant tom kelly was on a bombing raid over papa new guinea. b-24 bomber shot down by japanese anti-aircraft fire and lost in the pacific for 74 years. be happy we got. the bomber s watery grave recently discovered by project recover. a team of military historians and marine scientists who searched for the wreckage of combat aircraft and bring closure to the families listed as missing in action. i burst into tears. i couldn t believe it. diane christie never met her uncle tommy who was just 21 when he died. but his handwritten letters home are filled with humor and honor. the men fighting here for everyone are doing it for your freedom, he wrote. years of research by his family, including flight documents and eyewitness accounts pointed project recovery in the right
plane that crashed in world war ii to give them long information on their loved one s final resting place. claudia has that story for us. well, on march 11, 1944, lieutenant tom kelly was releasing bombs from a b-24 like this one behind me when his plane was shot down and lost in the pacific. but 74 years later a remarkable discovery has solved the mystery of what happened to lieutenant kelly and his crew and their plane named heaven can wait. the bomber s watery grave recently discovered by project recover, a team of military historians and marine scientists who searched for the wreckage of combat aircraft and bring closure to families of americans listed as missing in action. there is a moment of elation for finding a missing aircraft.