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Why was a car inside a sunk World War II aircraft carrier? NOAA researchers perplexed
A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean came across the unexpected sight of a Ford automobile in ...
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 ...
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Why Was a 1940s Car Discovered in the Wreck of an American Naval Ship That Sank During World War II?
The mysterious automobile was found in a hangar on the USS "Yorktown," which has been resting on the bottom of the Pacific ...
Massive WWII mural found intact on walls of USS Yorktown sunk in 1942, NOAA says
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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Cape May to commemorate World War II U-boat attack with Jacob Jones Memorial
An organization hopes to commemorate the 1942 sinking of an American destroyer, the first to be sunk after Pearl Harbor.
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Oldest known Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106
At 106 years old, Vaughn Drake Jr. was the oldest known survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor until his death on April 7, according to his obituary. Born Nov. 6, 1918, in Winchester, Kentucky ...
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Why a U.S. Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII's Battle of Okinawa
The pilot received the same funeral that the ship would have given one of its own sailors. Eighty years later, the Missouri is a museum moored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii ... CEO of the Battleship ...
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How A4-sized gashes sunk the Titanic after a six-second collision: New scans reveal ship's doomed final moments before iceberg smash
The sinking of history's most tragic ship - the Titanic - could have been caused by just a six second collision and gashes the size of an A4 sheet of paper, shocking new research has revealed.