{"id":112108,"date":"2021-04-03T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112108"},"modified":"2021-04-02T22:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:19:02","slug":"uss-johnston-dd-557-lost-in-battle-off-samar-in-1943-discovered-21k-feet-below-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112108","title":{"rendered":"USS Johnston (DD-557), lost in Battle Off Samar in 1943, discovered 21k feet below the waves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USS Johnston underway in 1943<\/p><\/div>\n

KoB sends in word about the amazing rediscovery of the lost WWII destroyer USS Johnston. Named after a US Navy Civil War hero, the ship was sunk in combat in the Battle Off Samar as part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Of Johnston’s complement of 327 officers and men, 141 were saved. Of the 186 men lost, about 50 were killed by enemy action, 45 died later on rafts from wounds, and 92 men, including the ship’s captain Cmdr. Evans, escaped the ship before she sank but were never seen again.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Commander Ernest Evans would receive a posthumous Medal of Honor for the action and all men of the ship received the Presidential Unit Citation. Sunk in more than 20,000 feet of water in the Philippine Trench, it was presumed the ship would never be found.<\/p>\n

In October 2019 Research Vessel Petrel located with a remotely operated submersible wreckage, but the bulk of the wreck (and any confirming markings there on) were beyond the sub’s 20,000 foot maximum depth. Another deep submergence vehicle recently went down to the lowest dived wreck ever and confirmed it was Johnston. Being at that depth, even for nearly 80 years, the ship pieces are well preserved and the ship’s hull number is clearly visible.<\/p>\n

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Read more about it at Military.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KoB sends in word about the amazing rediscovery of the lost WWII destroyer USS Johnston. Named after a US Navy Civil War hero, the ship was sunk in combat in the Battle Off Samar as part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Of Johnston’s complement of 327 officers and men, 141 were saved. Of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,10,119,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-link","category-historical","category-navy","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-tac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}