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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 20mm guns, 60 lb protective decks, and 90 aircraft. And, as it turns out, it also held one “1940-41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody’ in black.”
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 by a Japanese submarine during World War II. The baffling discovery was made Saturday, April 19, when NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the massive wreck, about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu.
The most surprising find was the first-ever discovery of underwater aircraft that had flown on the Midway battlefield, NOAA ...
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What’s a Surfer Dude’s Car Doing Beside the Wreck of the USS Yorktown?Recent explorations of the wreck of the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean uncovered a downed aircraft, and, ...
The USS Yorktown retrieved two Enterprise aircraft that were damaged in an attack on the Japanese navy carrier Kaga, ...
The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The ...
NOAA is asking for the public's help in identifying the car, which went down with the USS Yorktown during the 1942 Battle of ...
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A crew exploring the USS Yorktown shipwreck made an unexpected discovery when they located a mysterious Ford automobile among ...
Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 ...
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