As the aircraft carrier Taihō slipped beneath the waves, Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa initially chose to go down with his ship ...

Originally designed as a battleship, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kaga was later converted into a pioneering aircraft carrier that played a central role in shaping Japan’s naval air strategy. Its ...

“Hangar space on carriers was (and still is) extremely valuable. Having a car occupying space would be remarkable.” Yorktown was serving at the Battle of Midway in 1942 when Japanese carrier ...

The car, believed to be a 1940-41 Ford Super ... (The wrecks of two of the Japanese carriers were found on the bottom in 2019.) Americans lost the Yorktown, and scores of its sailors, to enemy ...

The 809-foot-long carrier took part in several World War II operations before being sunk by a Japanese submarine in ... NAVY” are written on part of the car's front plate, leading researchers ...

"It's a car. That's a car," one researcher was ... About 362 U.S. troops were among the dead. Japan lost four aircraft carriers, one cruiser, and hundreds of aircraft, while the U.S. lost one ...

The car was discovered April 19 in an ongoing ... a seminal clash of sea and air power – the carrier was ultimately sunk when a Japanese submarine torpedoed the ship while it was being hauled ...