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World War II aircraft carrier wreckage found

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's search team discovered the USS Lexington at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, with its guns, aircraft and other equipment in remarkably good condition. It sank in 1942, more than 500 miles off the coast of Australia during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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