Microsoft founder discovers wartime wreck in which five brothers drowned

PAUL ALLEN, the Microsoft cofounder, has announced that the wreckage of a sunken light cruiser, on which five brothers died in the Second World War, has been discovered in the South Pacific.

A spokesman for Mr Allen confirmed that the remains of the USS Juneau was found off the Solomon Islands.

The ship was hit by Japanese torpedoes in 1942, killing hundreds of men, including the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa.

The expedition team said it identified the Juneau on Saturday using sonar technology and used a remotely operated underwater vehicle to verify the wreckage on Sunday.

Mr Allen’s expedition team has previously found the wreck of the USS Ward, credited with firing America’s first shots in the Second World War, and the bell from the British battlecruiser HMS Hood, which was sunk in 1941. Earlier this month they found the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, sunk by the Japanese in 1942.