20, 2019, off Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Historians consider the Battle of Midway in 1942 an important victory for the United States during World War II.Īn autonomous underwater vehicle carrying high frequency sonar images of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi is loaded onto the research vessel Petrel, Sunday, Oct.

Yet sonar images show that the ship stayed mostly together when it sank. The front of the carrier is thought to have hit the seafloor at a high rate of speed, creating a large crater and spreading debris in the area.ĭuring the battle, bombs struck the Kaga, causing a massive fire. Sonar images of the Kaga showed it was in a similar condition. Last week, the Petrel research team reported finding another Japanese aircraft carrier, the Kaga. The Akagi was the second warship found in the area. Kraft added that the warship was sitting among a pile of wreckage and the surrounding ground was heavily affected by the ship hitting the seafloor. “It can be none other than Akagi,” he said. He told The Associated Press that based on the data collected, his team is sure they found the aircraft carrier.

Rob Kraft is head of Vulcan’s undersea operations. 20, 2019 off Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. A high frequency sonar image of the flagship Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi is shown aboard the research vessel Petrel on Sunday, Oct.

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