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The wreck was found late last year in 18,000 feet of water south of Australia’s remote Christmas Island, the U.S. Navy said. Australian and U.S. officials worked together to confirm it was the Edsall.

“It is pretty incredible,” said retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox, head of the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington. “And because there were no surviving American witnesses, there’s no Medals of Honor, no Navy Crosses, nothing for any of these guys.”

Historian Donald M. Kehn Jr. — whose 2008 book, “A Blue Sea of Blood,” tells the Edsall’s story — called the find “absolutely staggering.”

The wreck was found by the Stoker, an Australian naval support ship, which is normally used for hydrographic surveys, Vice Adm. Mark Hammond, chief of the Royal Australian Navy, said in the video.



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