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☆ Video Provides First Clear Views of WWII Aircraft Carriers Lost in the Pivotal Battle of Midway
  + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Associated Press | Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +7 min
The high-quality video includes the official identification of the Akagi, while also providing new clues about the final hours of the aircraft carriers. “I just hated to see my ship torn up like that.”All three aircraft carriers were found previously, the Yorktown in 1998 and the Japanese ships four years ago. Besides sinking the Akagi, the Kaga and two other Japanese aircraft carriers, U.S. forces shot down more than 250 Japanese airplanes. When ordered to abandon ship, Taylor jumped overboard and tried to swim to a nearby destroyer, U.S.S. “I was really upset because I loved that ship,” Taylor said.
Persons: Akagi, Kaga, Julian Hodges, ” Hodges, “, —, Bob Ballard, ” Daniel Wagner, it’s, Michael Leggins, Hodges, Robert Taylor, Taylor, Hans Van Tilburg, ”, Balch, Wagner, “ Nobody’s, ” Taylor, ” ___ Thiessen Organizations: Pacific, Imperial Japanese Navy, Yorktown, Ocean Exploration, Papahānaumokuākea, Northwestern, Ocean Exploration Trust, Associated Press, Nautilus, Midway, U.S . Pacific Fleet, Navy, AP, National Oceanic, Marine Sanctuaries Locations: U.S, . Yorktown, Yorktown, Northwestern Hawaiian, Honolulu, “, videoconference, Midway, Asia, Johnson City , Tennessee, Auburndale , Florida, Anchorage , Alaska
☆ Deep-sea explorers captured the first ever photos of a long-lost Japanese shipwreck from World War II's Battle of Midway
  + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A team led by the Ocean Exploration Trust also assessed two other wrecks from the Battle of Midway. AdvertisementAdvertisementResearchers used a remotely operated vehicle to reach the shipwreck, which lies more than 5,400 meters beneath the ocean's surface, Van Tilburg said. Ocean Exploration Trust/NOAAThe Japanese lost more than 3,000 men during the fight, while the US lost a little more than 350. Ocean Exploration TrustViewers following along at home included people whose family members served on the ships and helped build the vessels, Cook said. We have been friends with Japan before and after the war much longer than the period where we've been adversaries," Van Tilburg said.
Persons: Hans Van Tilburg, Van Tilburg, Akagi, Megan Cook, Cook, we've Organizations: Ocean Exploration, US, Service, Google, NOAA's, Marine Sanctuaries, Akagi, Exploration Trust, NOAA, Ocean Exploration Trust, Nautilus, Imperial Japanese, Heritage Command, Exploration Locations: Midway, Japan, Wall, Silicon, Yorktown
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