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Explorers discover a fully intact car inside the wreckage of the USS Yorktown...
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:52 pm
The USS Yorktown famously sunk during the now-famous Battle of Midway in June 1942. More than 80 years later, an expedition traveled to the wreck site to send submersibles into the reposing aircraft carrier. What they found surprised them.
"That's a car!"
"That's a car!"
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Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:03 pm to RollTide1987
The Ghost Ship Yorktown
Japan thought it sunk her 3 different times... yet she continued to live
1 at Coral Sea ("it'll take 3 weeks to make her seaworthy" "you have 72 hours")
2 times during the air attack at Midway (her damage control crew did such a good job the IJN thought they destroyed 2 different USN carriers which made them continue the attack leading to the sinking of the 4th IJN carrier at Midway)
Then a sub finally got her as she was being towed away from Midway
Japan thought it sunk her 3 different times... yet she continued to live
1 at Coral Sea ("it'll take 3 weeks to make her seaworthy" "you have 72 hours")
2 times during the air attack at Midway (her damage control crew did such a good job the IJN thought they destroyed 2 different USN carriers which made them continue the attack leading to the sinking of the 4th IJN carrier at Midway)
Then a sub finally got her as she was being towed away from Midway
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:04 pm to RollTide1987
That video was awesome
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:07 pm to rt3
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Japan thought it sunk her 3 different times... yet she continued to live
And thus the regend of Godzirra was born.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:45 pm to RollTide1987
A car on board isn’t a big deal. It looks like a military staff car, probably to be used by brass onshore.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:46 pm to cypresstiger
The video says it might’ve belonged to Jack Fletcher.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:48 pm to cypresstiger
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A car on board isn’t a big deal. It looks like a military staff car, probably to be used by brass onshore.
Yeah that didn’t really strike me as being some sort of shocking discovery.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:49 pm to RollTide1987
USS Hornet has a tractor
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:56 pm to rt3
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The Ghost Ship Yorktown
I did the USS Yorktown Ghost Tour in Charleston & build a model of the USS Yorktown at Midway.
Both ships lost the exact same number of sailors, 141.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 9:59 pm to RollTide1987
Very cool find. Those Woody’s are awesome cars.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 6:54 am to RollTide1987
I’ll swim out and give y’all an update.
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We just had two ships pass by yesterday that didn’t report that they would be close by.
One of them had both a Japanese flag and what the FWS manager thought was a US flag. He said he could see men lined up looking towards the island and thought they were paying their respects.
When I heard FWS talking about it on our radios, I jokingly said pirates were coming for us.
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We just had two ships pass by yesterday that didn’t report that they would be close by.
One of them had both a Japanese flag and what the FWS manager thought was a US flag. He said he could see men lined up looking towards the island and thought they were paying their respects.
When I heard FWS talking about it on our radios, I jokingly said pirates were coming for us.
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