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NOAA Ocean Exploration discovered a car among remains of the sunken USS Yorktown, in the Pacific Ocean, during a mission on April 19. NOAA researchers made the surprising discovery as they were exploring the remains of USS Yorktown (CV-5) – a US Navy aircraft carrier that took part in several World War II operations before being sunk by a Japanese submarine following the 1942 Battle of Midway. The researchers went back the following day, a spokesperson for NOAA Ocean Exploration told Storyful.
This footage captured by NOAA Ocean Exploration on April 20 shows the sunken vehicle at the bottom of the ocean. “During the dive on April 19, we noticed a faint outline of an automobile while peering into the aft hangar deck from the port side of USS Yorktown,” NOAA reported . After the follow-up April 20 dive, crews identified the vehicle as a black 1940-41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody.
’ “With ‘SHIP SERVICE ___ NAVY’ written on part of its front plate, this car is hypothesized to have been used for Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, Captain Elliott Buckmaster, or other ship crew while USS Yorktown was conducting business in foreign ports,” according to NOAA. Why the vehicle was still aboard USS Yorktown “after a brief 48-hour repair period in Pearl Harbor, when the ship’s officers knew it was heading to the Battle of Midway” remains a mystery for now, NOAA said. Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration via Storyful Video Transcript That's the vehicle.
All right, let's come in there, video. Oh wow, that's such a good view. Great, isn't that something? Yeah.
Now that's just amazing. Here we go. Soft top, right? I don't know if we get much.
Yes, I, does that confirm your soft top theory? It it looks like it looks like it they've had hard sides in the soft top. We look clear, right, John? Yeah, OK. Doing good.
I think I'm OK to get the swing arms out video. You think that would help or OK, let's leave them then. Oh they are.
Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, look at the pictures. Oh there actually.
Evening on. Looking at the pictures I'm looking at here, um, it kind of does look like a woody, but I can't really verify if that's wood or not um. Or it's been eaten away, but certainly the window patterns to the top match.
Good track focus on ceos when you get a chance. Thanks. Not responding to reset.
Now we just need a license plate. Understood. You're just creeping in.
Good. Thanks. Sorry, everyone, I stepped out for like a vehicle? That is indeed a vehicle.
Partial. I need to. Yeah, so Mike, we're in the, we're in the #3 elevator looking forward right now.
So this is forward starboard, um, from the #3 elevator. That's incredible. Or you need or you need to step away more so we can find even more.
Is Phil Fram with the vehicle rolling. Mike, this completely explains that story coming out of Midway where the admiral said, Wait a minute, where did you park my car? So do we assume this was Fletcher's flag vehicle at that time. Uh, it kinda looks like a Jeep.
Would jeep be flared like that on the fenders? Yeah. With Chrome Trends Well, that's another one. It's an admiral's Jeep, an admiral's Jeep they have chrome.
spare tires like it still has air in it. Spare tire looks like it still has air in it. Looks drivable to me.
Yeah, go for it, copilot, if you wanna get that camera out a little, do a selfie, go for it, sure. Don't see any additional details available. Here's an open request to all of you automobile vehicle folks out there, um.
I'm sure you are being attentive to this and you understand what you're looking at. Please, uh please post on this. It really helps.
Yeah, we could try. Brian, uh, I think that's full tilt. Um, I don't know, we got a little bit more.
Oh, it's, it's come in partial video. That's our goal. Fuzzy on the sediment.
Uh, stand by, hold there. Is that a beer can or a beer can, but the the the bumper there..
