Captain Hakan Uçar, director of the Turkish Navy's Design Project Office (DPO), revealed new details of the country's first ...

On April 19 and 20, NOAA Ocean Exploration explored the final resting place of USS Yorktown, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier lost in the Battle of Midway. Resting 3.1 miles beneath the surface and ...

The Essex-class aircraft carrier and National Historic Landmark ... Koepp said the nation's shipbuilding mission was clear when the Yorktown was commissioned in 1943 during the midst of the ...

Finding aircraft actively involved ... More than 80 sailors aboard the Sims-class destroyer died in the attack. This image of an automobile on USS Yorktown first discovered during the April ...

The aircraft ... The strike group includes the flagship USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), the nine squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1, three guided-missile destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 28, and the ...

The USS Yorktown was known to have housed 2,200 personnel and 90 aircraft, the publication reported. The dives to the 809-foot-long vessel were “the first to explore the ship’s hanger deck ...

Aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was commissioned in 1937 and was used in several WWII missions. Getty Images The USS Yorktown was commissioned in 1937 and took part in several World War II missions ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration photo Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 years. Now, human eyes have finally peered ...

j.g. William Edward Hall and Seaman 1st Class John Moore, were more successful in bombing the Japanese carrier Shoho. Although Shoho launched three more fighters, it could not stop U.S. aircraft ...

When the Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 ... this project and finish it on time to continue to protect the Lowcountry.” The Essex-class aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1943, converted to an ...

This undertaking ensures that our coastline remains protected." Commissioned in 1943, the Yorktown is an Essex-class aircraft that was converted to an attack aircraft carrier in the 1950s, then to an ...