Eighty years later, America is still bringing her hero's home.

[william]

Deep beneath the waters of Subic Bay, U.S. Navy divers are on a sacred mission — carefully excavating the wreck of the Japanese “hell ship” Oryoku Maru. In December 1944, over 1,600 Allied POWs — many survivors of the brutal Bataan Death March — were crammed into its holds when American aircraft sank the ship. More than 250 American heroes remain entombed there after eight decades in the dark. Now, our warriors are diving into treacherous depths, low visibility, and tangled steel to recover their remains and finally bring them home to their families.

This is one of the most complex underwater recovery operations in U.S. military history, led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) from the USNS Salvor. These divers aren’t just retrieving artifacts — they’re restoring dignity, delivering closure, and proving that no American who falls in service is ever truly lost. In the face of time, tide, and danger, America refuses to forget.

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[NuclearID]

 

[NuclearID]

However... If I remember right. Bones of any kind would have entirely dissolved by now. I only know this because the only reason why we don't see skeletons in the Titanic wreckage is because all the skeletons/dead people from Titanic have quite literally dissolved.

So. If bodies from the Titanic including their bones have already dissolved... Is there realistically scientifically anything left of the soldiers/pow's?

I mean... I would love nothing more than to bring our men home. But given science... If I remember correctly after 80 years the ocean chemistry would have dissolved their bones by now leaving, well, nothing left at all expect the metal haul of the sub... Right? Am I wrong?

 

[NuclearID]

However... If I remember right. Bones of any kind would have entirely dissolved by now. I only know this because the only reason why we don't see skeletons in the Titanic wreckage is because all the skeletons/dead people from Titanic have quite literally dissolved.

So. If bodies from the Titanic including their bones have already dissolved... Is there realistically scientifically anything left of the soldiers/pow's?

I mean... I would love nothing more than to bring our men home. But given science... If I remember correctly after 80 years the ocean chemistry would have dissolved their bones by now leaving, well, nothing left at all expect the metal haul of the sub... Right? Am I wrong?

I mean short of the prisoners of war or the sub itself being buried in sediment. I just don't see how they're going to recover remains after 80 years, any exposed bones to the ocean water would have been dissolved by now.

The only way I see any kind of way to retrieve them is if their bodies or the sub itself were buried in ocean sediment/sand shortly after crashing the seafloor. Preventing oxygen or currents from reaching their bones and dissolving it.

Short of that.... I just don't see it.

And if it's in shallower waters which the video indicates, then I would assume there's almost no chance they're going to find remains at all, unless again the sub itself got buried in sediment shortly after hitting seafloor, essentially fossilization of any carbon(bone) remains in the sub.

 

[william]

Yeah, you're probably right. If there is nothing left though, wouldn't you think the military would proclaim the wreck a national grave site and leave it be. At any rate I hope it will give the decedents of the men that died there some closer.

 

[Yingyang]

Yeah, you're probably right. If there is nothing left though, wouldn't you think the military would proclaim the wreck a national grave site and leave it be. At any rate I hope it will give the decedents of the men that died there some closer.

Unfortunately technically the title is incorrect as nothing to bring home. Just acknowledgement.