New ROV exploration to USS Yorktown (sunk at Midway)....3.5 miles down

[1srelluc]

NOAA Ocean Exploration Livestream: Camera 1

CV-5, sunk at Midway 1942.

-7:09 on the live feed from yesterday.

USS Yorktown (CV-5), abandoned and listing heavily to port

USS Yorktown (CV-5) - Wikipedia

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[odanny]

Probably the most iconic of the 4 carriers lost in the Pacific. Video quality is amazing.

 

[whitehall]

Fragmented American intelligence wasn't good for much but they hit a home run at Midway. American carrier based planes sunk four Japanese carriers and Japan never recovered from it.

 

[odanny]

Fragmented American intelligence wasn't good for much but they hit a home run at Midway. American carrier based planes sunk four Japanese carriers and Japan never recovered from it.

The Allies won the deciphering war against the Axis very early on, what an amazing advantage to have.

 

[whitehall]

The Allies won the deciphering war against the Axis very early on, what an amazing advantage to have.

George Marshall was one of the few people who had access to "Magic", the Japanese diplomatic code. His staff gave him the message that Japan was preparing an attack on 12/7/41 and he read it and re-read it and re-re read it and finally sent a Western Union telegram to Pearl Harbor that arrived about the same time as the Zeroes.

 

[odanny]

That was par for the course when the war started, it seems all those years of tropical sun and fun lulled everyone to sleep, including MacArthur. American aircraft left out in the open for the Japanese to bomb on Clark Field nine hours after Pearl Harbor.

Iba airfield on Luzon was so destroyed that the Japanese Zeros and Mitsubishi bombers flew on to Clark Field to see if they could find more targets, which they did.


United States Army Air Forces commanding general Henry H. Arnold called Brereton that afternoon to ask "how the hell" he was caught by surprise nine hours after receiving news of the Pearl Harbor attack. Walter Short was relieved of command of the Hawaiian Department on 17 December by Army chief of staff general George C. Marshall, who took no similar action against MacArthur despite remarking to a reporter a few days later: "I just don't know how MacArthur happened to let his planes get caught on the ground."

Attack on Clark Field - Wikipedia

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