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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.”
Ford ‘Woody’ sunk amidst WWII aircraft carrier wreck confuses experts
Six months after Pearl Harbor (June 1942), the U.S. Navy faced off against the Japanese fleet again at the Battle of Midway. The Japanese fleet targeted U.S. carriers because it had been unable to damage them during Pearl Harbor. But it only managed to sink one carrier and one destroyer. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy sank four Japanese carriers.
Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific ...
The most surprising find was the first-ever discovery of underwater aircraft that had flown on the Midway battlefield, NOAA ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A famous piece of history is now on display at the USS Midway Museum. An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, is in San ...
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The USS Yorktown was commissioned in 1937 and took part in several World War II missions in the Pacific before it went down ...
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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