A team of underwater archaeologists has pieced together information from declassified government documents and a shipwrecked World War II-era naval vessel to understand the secret role played by one of the most historic U.S. aircraft carriers: the USS Independence.
The Independence (CVL 22) was one of 90 vessels assigned to Operation Crossroads—the atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands—but it was deliberately sunk, or scuttled, in 1951 and little was known about its career after the atomic bomb tests.
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