Stunning photos of ship which fired first US shots of WWII

 

 

REVEALED: Wreck of USS Ward - which fired the first American shots of WWII an hour BEFORE Pearl Harbor attack - is found off the Philippines by team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

• The first ever underwater images of a sunken Navy warship which is believed to have fired America’s first shot of World War Two were revealed on Wednesday 
• Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, sent his team of deep-sea explorers to far beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines 
• It was there, on the seafloor of Ormoc Bay, that they used maritime drones and a research vessel to photograph the wreckage of the USS Ward 
• The Ward was a Wickes-class destroyer that patrolled the entrance to Pearl Harbor nearly 76 years to the day – December 7, 1941 – that Japanese aircraft launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian base 
• Three years to the day after Pearl Harbor, the Ward was patrolling the waters off the Phillippines when it was hit by several Japanese kamikazes The first ever underwater images of a sunken Navy warship which is believed to have fired America’s first shot of World War Two were revealed on Wednesday.Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, sent his team of deep-sea explorers to far beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines.

It was there, on the seafloor of Ormoc Bay, that they used maritime drones and a research vessel to photograph the wreckage of the USS Ward.

The Ward was a Wickes-class destroyer that patrolled the entrance to Pearl Harbor nearly 76 years to the day – December 7, 1941 – that Japanese aircraft launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian base.