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Midway: Second World War II-era Japanese carrier apparently found in Pacific (Akagi or Soryu)
Fox News ^ | 10/19/2019 | Bradford Betz

Posted on 10/20/2019 9:39:51 PM PDT by Signalman

Deep-sea explorers and historians on Sunday announced they apparently found a second World War II-era Japanese aircraft carrier that sank during the Battle of Midway.

A review of sonar data captured Sunday showed either the Japanese carrier Akagi or the Soryu resting in nearly 18,000 feet of water in the Pacific Ocean more than 1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Vulcan Inc. director of undersea operations Rob Kraft said.

The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, equipped with sonar to find the ship. The vehicle had been out overnight collecting data, and the image of a warship appeared in the first set of readings on Sunday morning.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 19420603; akagi; battleofmidway; johnparshall; midway; navy; soryu; ww2
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To: Equine1952
I paid no attention when I was in.

Nor did I...had a pretty easy four year tour. After reading Neptune’s
Inferno
and Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors I gained the respect for
the Navy that I never had as an active duty Marine. I even can sorta respect
Fletcher's decision to abandon First MARDIV on Guadalcanal...our sailors
got pounded off of Savo Island and preserving the carriers was everything.
21 posted on 10/21/2019 5:57:11 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: mowowie

I don’t think he has made it yet.


22 posted on 10/21/2019 6:40:39 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: OKSooner

Ping.


23 posted on 10/21/2019 6:50:31 AM PDT by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: Equine1952

Ordinary men did extraordinary things in WW2. My grandfather was a farm boy from Maine. Joined the Navy in ‘42 because my great grandfather was a Doughboy and didn’t want his son in the trenches. He served on one Tin Can the whole war. Sailed the Pacific from the Aleutians to Australia and most everywhere in between. His big battle was Philippine Sea.

When I was a kid he was always setting off metal detectors at the airport from some shrapnel in his leg from a bad gunnery accident that killed a bunch of his shipmates. RIP.


24 posted on 10/21/2019 7:01:10 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: doorgunner69

Don’t you mean “Shattered Sword?”


25 posted on 10/21/2019 7:54:58 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: Signalman

It’s the Akagi. The Kaga was found only days before.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/21/humbling-wreckage-of-japanese-ships-from-battle-of-midway-found-in-pacific


26 posted on 10/21/2019 8:20:34 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Signalman

Could someone supply a translation of “Akagi” and
“Soryu”? Thanks.


27 posted on 10/21/2019 9:26:13 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
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To: bruin66

“Akagi” translates as “Red Castle” “Soryu” translates as “Blue/Green Dragon”.


28 posted on 10/21/2019 9:37:53 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: major_gaff

Was that Fletcher, or Admiral Ghormley’s call?


29 posted on 10/21/2019 11:25:36 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: Signalman

Are the Producers of the new Midway Movie bankrolling this?

I’m sure the timing is a complete coincidence.

That being said, it’s amazing what Human Ingenuity can accomplish. Sitting at the bottom in 18,000 feet of Water and there it is.


30 posted on 10/21/2019 11:29:23 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Pretty much the entire airfleet that bombed Pearl perished at Midway.


31 posted on 10/21/2019 11:29:55 AM PDT by AU72
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To: ebshumidors

Indeed it is shattered, been a few months since I read it.


32 posted on 10/21/2019 1:11:33 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: US Navy Vet

Yeah, jagged memory.

I would have preferred to read the paper version rather than Kindle. Most of the maps of the engagements are too small to see on a little screen.


33 posted on 10/21/2019 1:14:03 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: bravo whiskey

yeah yeah, you guys are busting my balls bad.


34 posted on 10/21/2019 1:21:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Kickass Conservative

Wife just told me this morning of the new film. Chock full of CGI no doubt, which I hate.

That and it has the Harrelson dork in it, so will likely pass until on netflix.


35 posted on 10/21/2019 1:23:38 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

I have it in both Audible and Paperback.


36 posted on 10/21/2019 1:45:41 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: doorgunner69

Kaigun is also good


37 posted on 10/21/2019 2:41:28 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: M1903A1
According to James Hornfischer in Neptune's Inferno Fletcher stated
that it was his intention to pull the carriers out at the first opportunity in
the early planning stages of Operation Watchtower, much to the
consternation of Adm. Turner and Marine General Vandergrift. Once the air
cover was removed, Turner was forced to pull the transports leaving the
Marines with only a portion of their equipment and supplies.
38 posted on 10/21/2019 4:06:38 PM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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