The group said that on September 10, a team spent 14 hours surveying Akagi, noting it was "the first time anyone has laid eyes on the vessel since sinking during June 1942's Battle of Midway." ...

The USS Yorktown in 1937 U.S. Navy Archives The Battle of Midway survey was part of a broader ... in a statement from the group. “Many anti-aircraft guns were still pointing up, providing ...

Last February, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its strike group launched massive attack into Somalia in response ...

Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle ... attack at Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands ...

USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns after being hit by three Japanese bombs at the Battle of Midway ... an attack on a U.S. base on Midway Atoll, a small group of islands that were of strategic importance.

NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the USS Yorktown on April 19 and ... by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The mission was the first ...

The USS Yorktown sank on June 7, 1942, during the Battle of Midway. (Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA) A Japanese submarine ultimately sank the Yorktown at Midway on June 7, 1942, after the carrier ...

After refueling and rearming, Wiseman’s group set out to find ... the enemy in the air battle of Midway. A destroyer escort was also named after him, the USS Wiseman DE 667.

This is the story of how a Vietnamese air force officer flew his family and two dozen other evacuees in a helicopter onto the USS ... on the Midway, officers instructed our helicopter group ...

Researchers for the first time have performed a detailed search of three deep-sea shipwrecks from the Battle of Midway ... on a U.S. base on Midway Atoll, a small group of islands that were ...