Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the Petrel to one sunken warship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga. The ship was found in December by a group called the Lost 52 Project, which searches for Navy submarines and warships sunk during World War II.Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United States and Japan, a research vessel is launching underwater robots miles into the abyss to look for warships from the famed Battle of Midway. ![]() carrier, a Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the sea off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in June 1945. The ship’s discovery “allows some closure to the families of those lost, and provides us all another opportunity to remember and honor them,” said command Director Samuel J. warship sunk by the weapon which was identified as “one of the first cruise missiles,” and fired up to 425 mph.Īlong with four fighter aircraft, inshore Fire Support ships fought further enemy attacks and began rescuing the Abele's survivors. ![]() Known as the “Cherry Blossom,” the Ohka was a rocket-powered human-guided bomb “and the resulting explosion caused the ship’s bow and stern to buckle rapidly,” the release said, adding that it became the first U.S. After the Sumner-class destroyer engaged with and damaged multiple enemy aircraft, a plane managed to crash next to it, penetrating its side, the command said, adding that a minute later it was “at the waterline by a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka.”
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