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Researchers Stumped After 1940s Car Is Found Inside Sunk World War II Aircraft Carrier
The USS ‘Yorktown’ was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and now rests at the bottom of the ...
Why was a Ford automobile inside a sunken WWII US aircraft carrier?
The shipwreck of the USS Yorktown was located around 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu in May 1988 through a joint operation ...
Why the USS Gerald R. Ford Is Such a Badass Aircraft Carrier
Ford is not just any technological marvel—she’s the most advanced and most powerful ship in the world.
Former USS Enterprise being prepared for finale tow
Final preparations are underway at Newport News Shipbuilding to prepare for the departure of the longest — and quite possibly one of the most long lived and ...
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The Ford-class USS John F. Kennedy Aircraft Carrier Is Facing Delays
As the Nimitz-class carriers retire, fielding their Ford-class replacements in a timely manner is imperative. Delays to ...
Car found parked in hangar of sunken WWII ship, baffling historians. See photos
Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific ...
Explorers at WWII shipwreck find aircraft from legendary battle
The mural, "A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown," had been partially visible in historic photographs taken before the ...
WWII dive bomber found on Pacific floor — with a bomb still attached, NOAA says
The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The ...
A Classic Car Appeared on a Sunken WWII Aircraft Carrier. No One Knows Who Put It There.
USS Yorktown (CV-5)—an aircraft carrier commissioned in September 1937 and sunk in October 1942—was equipped with 24 Oerlikon ...