U.S. WWII-era aircraft carrier found off Australian coast

The wreckage of a wartime U.S. aircraft carrier has been found off the coast of eastern Australia by a crew led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.The Lexington, which has been credited with helping protect Australia from a potential Japanese invasion during World War II, was found Sunday roughly 800 kilometers off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.The aircraft carrier went down with 216 of its crew and 35 aircraft during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.Although the rough location of the wreckage has been known for some time, it was finally found some 3,000 meters deep …READ FULL ARTICLE