![]() Saturday, September 15th, 2012 | Tags : 1942, Guadalcanal, Navy, Pacific Nearly 200 brave sailors lost their lives with the sinking of the Wasp, with many more wounded. Though her aircraft in the sky at the time of the attack were able to make emergency landings elsewhere, the rest of the planes the Wasp carried were lost with the ship. After a successful evacuation, the Wasp soon rested on the floor of the waters off Guadalcanal. The fires could not be fought and the order to abandon ship was given. On top of that, she was hit much like the battleship Arizona was at Pearl Harbor, struck near the magazine causing huge explosions from ammo and gasoline. ![]() Being as Wasp was lightly armored due to its construction limitations, she was particularly vulnerable. She was struck by several torpedoes fired from the Japanese submarine I-19. On 15 September 1942, Wasp along with the only other carrier available in the Pacific, the Hornet, was on escort duty ensuring the landing of 7 th Marines on Guadalcanal proper. Beginning in the early hours of 7 August 1942, Wasp’s Avengers, SBDs, and Wildcats hit several Japanese positions throughout the Guadalcanal islands, taking out 24 enemy aircraft at the cost of 4 of their own. With the American invasion of Guadalcanal in the works by July 1942, the Wasp was assigned to Admiral Fletcher’s force. After months spent training and patrolling the Atlantic-and an American declaration of war- Wasp was sent once again to ferry aircraft on behalf of the British RAF for actions at Malta in April 1942, and a return trip a month later to replace heavy aircraft losses in the first go-round.Īfter losing two carriers in naval combat ( Lexington at Coral Sea and Yorktown at Midway), the Wasp was suddenly in high demand in the Pacific. To build such a light aircraft carrier meant doing without much armor at all, which certainly contributed to the ship’s demise on this day 70 years ago, 15 September 1942.īefore America declared war, the Wasp was one of several ships that participated in the transport of US aircraft to Iceland in late summer 1941. For the Wasp, this meant displacing no more than 15,000 tons. The aircraft carrier was built according to proportions agreed upon at the Washington Naval Conference in 1922. The USS Wasp (CV-7) was laid down on 1 April 1936, and commissioned on 25 April 1940. However, every single thing you change spends a resource that you get by collecting Alien Artifacts.The Wasp gets hit hard, 15 September 1942. ![]() If you’re still somehow not aware what the artifacts are for, well, you know that Kymera skin that you got when you bought the season pass? Well, you can customize it in a variety of ways. So, those are the Fortnite Week 6 Alien Artifact locations. Week 6 Alien Artifact locations (click or tap to enlarge) Look for the artifact in the lower levels of the castle ruins. ![]() It’s the small island southwest of Misty Meadows. Lastly, we’re going to Orelia Island in the southwest of the map.Find the raised building in the camp area the artifact will be in there, next to the telescope and a chest. Go to Base Camp Hotel in the snowy mountains east of Catty Corner and southeast of Retail Row.Open the map and look for a small patch of purple trees between Steamy Stacks and Dirty Docks.In the west of Corny Complex, there’s a large barn of sorts, and the artifact will be floating among the rafters.The artifact is in the white shed next to the lighthouse. In the northwest corner of the map, north of Coral Castle, there’s a large lighthouse called Lockie Lighthouse.
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