TOPIC: World War II Underwater Archaeology | Scanning of Wreck Sites
All students are invited to the first meeting of the school year for the Archaeology Society.
Topics include new data-based 3D reconstructions about:
- The Battleship Arizona in Pearl Harbor's shallows, whose destruction brought America into the war
- The German Battleship, the Bismarck, and its mysterious end three miles down
- US merchant ships that were secretly torpedoed by U-boats off the coast of the USA
- Amphibious Sherman tanks that sank as they attempted to make it to shore on the Allies' costly D-Day beachhead
- The Troopship Leopoldville disaster in 1944 off the coast of France (5.5 miles from Cherbourg)
This topic is also a prep for the upcoming trip to the Intrepid in NYC (to the special exhibition on underwater archaeology) on Wednesday, October 1st.
Links for additional info:
Arizona (BB-39) Wreck Site (1941)
Floating tanks | Maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings
Leopoldville - Leopoldville Troopship Disaster
SS Léopoldville - Wreck Location Map & GPS Coordinates - Shipwreck Finder