Victor Vescovo

And at one point, one American sailor watching the Japanese battleships leave the battlefield was screaming out, wait, they're getting away.

But the Johnston that fought heroically, in fact, the first medal of honor awarded to a Native American in the US Navy was the captain of that vessel, and he did not survive the battle.

And the destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts

They called it the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship.

It went even deeper in the Philippine trench than the Johnston did.

And I was very happy to be the first person to locate the majority of those wrecks.

Wow.

What are the depth of those?

6,500, 6,800 meters.

That's 50% deeper than Titanic.

And the wrecks were a tenth the size of Titanic.

It was really hard to find them.

But we had a methodology.

We had a great team.

And we alternated the pilot duties.

And I was fortunate I was able to be the pilot when we found the two wrecks.

And it's very eerie.

In fact, on the Samuel B. Roberts...

I remember getting to the wreck.

We were so excited.