Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk in battle in World War Two. The carriers were among seven ships that went down in the Battle of Midway, a major air and ...

U.S. Yorktown ... fought at the Battle of Midway, the Eastern Solomons , and the Santa Cruz Islands, where on 24 October 1942 she took four Japanese bombs and three aerial torpedoes plus two suicide ...

Aircraft carriers have been a crucial element in combat since they were invented, but they didn't see combat against each ...

Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle ... carriers were nowhere in the vicinity, Nagumo ordered the 93 fueled and armed aircraft ...

Seventy-five years ago (June 4-7, 1942), the astonishing American victory at the Battle of Midway ... aircraft losses on another. The American carrier Lexington was sunk, and the Yorktown was ...

The Bulldogs had originally been scheduled to battle Army in the nightcap. The Throwdown on the Yorktown suffered ...

As announced 56 years to the day of the June 4, 1942 battle which led to its demise, USS Yorktown was recently discovered, more than three miles under the sea, off the island of Midway in the ...