The site is the final resting place for hundreds of sailors on both sides of the conflict.
Akagi 3: 127 mm twin anti-aircraft gun mounted below the flight deck of IJN Akagi. Photo recorded by Ocean Exploration Trust’s ROV Atalanta, on Sept. 10.Researchers for the first time have performed a detailed search of three deep-sea shipwrecks from the Battle of Midway, discovering new details that could help researchers better understand a critical turning point in World War II.
The crew used remote-controlled vessels to film and photograph the USS Yorktown, as well as the wreckage of the Japanese Imperial Navy’s Akagi and Kaga. Samuel Cox, director of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, said the project would help “document and assess” important war grave sites for American and Japanese sailors.
USS Yorktown burns after being hit by three Japanese bombs during the Battle of Midway, on June 4, 1942.The Battle of Midway took place over several days in June 1942 about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu. The Japanese navy aimed to expand its reach in the Pacific Ocean by launching an attack on a U.S. base on Midway Atoll, a small group of islands that were of strategic importance.
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