USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier sunk in World War II, found near Solomon Islands


A US aircraft carrier that helped turn the tide of World War II at the Battle of Midway has been found 76 years after it was sunk near the Solomon Islands.

Wreckage of the USS Hornet was discovered this week at a depth of 5,400m by a research vessel funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

Mr Allen's philanthropic company Vulcan located the wreck using an autonomous submarine sent by the crew of the research vessel Petrel.

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