[Photo] USS Wasp (Essex-class) with the leading 35 feet of her flight deck collapsed by a typhoon two days earlier, 27 Aug 1945 south of Japan.

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USS Wasp (Essex-class) with the leading 35 feet of her flight deck collapsed by a typhoon two days earlier, 27 Aug 1945 south of Japan. ww2dbase

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15 Jul 2014

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WW2-Era Place Name	Pacific Ocean
Lat/Long	32.1617, 135.2300

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