{"id":45446,"date":"2023-11-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/11\/24\/sunken-world-war-ii-carrier-resting-place-identified-78-years-later\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:16:52","slug":"sunken-world-war-ii-carrier-resting-place-identified-78-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/11\/24\/sunken-world-war-ii-carrier-resting-place-identified-78-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunken World War II carrier resting place identified 78 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: This article was first published on July 11, 2023.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wreckage site of a World War II U.S. Navy escort carrier was identified July 10, 2023, by the Naval History and Heritage Command\u2019s Underwater Archaeology branch, bringing a semblance of closure to the crew of a ship that dipped beneath the waves 78 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The USS Ommaney Bay (CVE 79) was transiting the Sulu Sea near the Philippines on the evening of Jan. 4, 1945, when it came under attack by a twin-engine aircraft flown by a Japanese kamikaze pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ship\u2019s skipper, Capt. 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Young, had just opted to install extra guards on deck as an extra precautionary measure against such attacks \u2014 but the effort proved futile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incoming aircraft, which no sailors spotted until it was too late, slammed into the Casablanca-class escort carrier\u2019s starboard side, erupting its two attached bombs and igniting a conflagration on the ship\u2019s flight deck, where a slew of aircraft that had not yet been degassed were assembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe second bomb exploded close to the starboard side after rupturing the fire main on the second deck and passing through the hanger deck,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/news-and-events\/news\/2023\/Wreck-site-identified-as-WWII-carrier-USS-Ommaney-Bay.html\" target=\"_blank\">NHHC release<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1168\" height=\"819\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1689096891330.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1689096891330.jpg.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1689096891330.jpg.jpg?resize=300,210 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1689096891330.jpg.jpg?resize=768,539 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1689096891330.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,718 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1168px) 100vw, 1168px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Smoke billows from the Ommaney Bay. (Naval History and Heritage Command)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other ships rushed to pull alongside the \u201cBig O\u201d and assist with the fires but were quickly beaten back by the searing heat. As the gasoline- and bomb-fueled inferno spread, an even more dire issue arose \u2014 the ship\u2019s torpedo warheads could explode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 5:45 p.m., 45 minutes after the plane tore into the carrier, the order to scuttle the Ommaney Bay was issued by Vice Adm. Jesse B. Oldendorf to the adjacent Fletcher-class destroyer USS Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Cooper, a sailor aboard the Ommaney Bay,<a href=\"https:\/\/theveteransmuseum.org\/joe-cooper-survived-the-burning-of-wwiis-uss-ommaney-bay-and-served-again-in-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\"> recalled desperately awaiting rescue in the water<\/a> after abandoning ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was sharks. Looked like men were climbing on each other\u2019s shoulders to get out of the water,\u201d Cooper told the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas. \u201cI remembered from Guadalcanal, we saw a submarine\u2019s periscope. We fired a torpedo. I run back there and saw oil slicks. It was a cargo ship and sunk it. It was our first submarine. I\u2019d seen men get pulled under by sharks and ate up at Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, they told us, \u2018If you ever hit the water, don\u2019t kick or nothing, because the sharks will come after you.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the water, I stayed still and a few sharks just went by me. No ships came to support us because the light carrier Princeton had been damaged when it went alongside the Birmingham when it was bombed, so they stayed away from us. So they let us burn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 8 p.m. the USS Burns fired a single torpedo at the unsalvageable escort carrier, sending the hulking, broiling ship below the surface for good. Of her 800-strong crew, 95 were lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crew working alongside NHHC personnel located the ship using \u201ca combination of survey information provided by the Sea Scan Survey team and video footage provided by the DPT Scuba dive team,\u201d according to the release. \u201cThis information was correlated with location data for the wreck site\u201d gathered in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOmmaney Bay is the final resting place of American Sailors who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country,\u201d retired admiral and NHHC Director Samuel J. 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