Wreckage Found Off Philippines Is WWII Aircraft Carrier Which Deployed from San Diego

Scientists have confirmed that wreckage found on the seafloor off the Philippines are the remains of the USS Ommaney Bay, an aircraft carrier that was destroyed in World War II less than a year after it sailed out of San Diego Bay on its second deployment.

A Japanese kamikaze plane struck the Casablanca-class carrier on Jan. 4, 1945, in the Sulu Sea, igniting massive fires and setting off munitions, killing nearly 95 crew members. The damage was so bad the Navy scuttled the ship.