Why do 12 marines guard this WWII shipwreck 24/7?
It's the most notorious shipwreck in the world - a WWII landing craft still guarded by marines 24/7 and still classified as an active naval outpost, despite having been constructed almost 100 years ago now. Support making these videos: / @thorntonshistoryclub A history of the USS Harnett County, who served in the American Navy in WWII, but is much more famous for having run aground. / thorntonshistoryclub / thorntonshistoryclub / nichehistorysocialclub Sources include (not enough room to write everything): South China Morning Post, “Philippines’ Marcos Jnr says ...,” 16 Apr. 2024, https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politi... USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, “Mount Pinatubo, Philippines,” https://eros.usgs.gov/earthshots/moun... Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs / Foreign Service Institute, Ang West Philippine Sea: Isang Sipat, Dec. 2014, https://jeddahpcg.dfa.gov.ph/images/2... Ma. Teresa Montemayor, “DFA: Resupply ...’,” Philippine News Agency, 16 Nov. 2023, https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1213808 中华人民共和国驻芬兰共和国大使馆, 15 May 2016, https://fi.china-embassy.gov.cn/xwdt/... Agence France-Presse, “Why is a rusty old Philippine warship ...?”, South China Morning Post, 8 Aug. 2023, https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southe... Carla Teng-Westergaard, “How Can a Decaying Warship ...?,” Asia Media Centre, 23 Aug. 2023, https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/fe... Joel Guinto, “China says Philippines ...,” BBC News, 13 Mar. 2024, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia... Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, “Holding out against China in a row over reefs,” BBC News, 16 Feb. 2023, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia... 新华网, “外交部：奉劝菲方立即停止侵权挑衅行径,” 21 June 2024, https://www.news.cn/20240621/2d88db7a... Christian Wirth, “Der chinesisch-philippinische ....,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 5 Mar. 2024, https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publica... Priam Nepomuceno, “28 Navy sailors feted ...,” Philippine News Agency, 29 July 2024, https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1230024 Liu Xiaobo, “Divergence and Tacit Understanding in the China–Philippines Provisional Arrangement at Second Thomas Shoal,” Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, 23 Mar. 2026, https://amti.csis.org/divergence-and-... China Daily, “Manila shall withdraw ...,” 26 Aug. 2024, https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/20240... NavSource Online, “USS Harnett County (LST-821),” https://www.navsource.net/archives/10... Naval History and Heritage Command, “Harnett County,” Credit to: Public domain material via Internet Archive. Public domain footage via Prelinger Archives, courtesy of Internet Archive. Stock footage and images via Pexels. Stock footage and images via Pixabay. Stock footage and images via Envato. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Catalog. Philippine Coast Guard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Sentinel Hub EO Browser (ESA), CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Philippine Navy - Naval Forces West, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Philippine Coast Guard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vintage Map: Wingadium1, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons SN Mark Bergado/U.S. Navy, U.S., the Philippines Conduct Maritime Cooperative Activity, DVIDS, 16 Jul. 2025, public domain. USN, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, USS Harnett County (LST-821), Catalog No. USN 1119226. Reuters/BBC News, BRP Sierra Madre at Second Thomas Shoal, BBC News. Reuters/BBC News, Philippine Marines aboard BRP Sierra Madre, BBC News. Armed Forces of the Philippines/PNA, Returned BRP Sierra Madre crew at Naval Detachment Oyster Bay Pier, Palawan, 29 Jul. 2024. Ed Pietzuch, (HA(L)-3), US Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Archive material sourced under main licenses: Wikimedia & Creative Commons 1.0, 2,0, 3.0, 4.0 GNU Free Documentation License NASA Public Domain License Copernicus Program Satellite: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021 Google Earth Studio & Google’s Geo Guidelines #history #worldhistory #wwii
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