Wrecks of Midway - The Grave of the Aircraft Carriers 

This is because of the pre atom bomb age low-background steel. All metal now has traces of nuclear fallout. in it. and the production medical instruments need low-background steel. Several sunken Dutch warships have been stripped to their keel line or mud line by trawling the wrecks. China is entirely responsible and photo proof exists of large rusty scrap metal being piled at collection centers for processing. As for the Midway wrecks probably no scrapping will occur as China knows the US would be watching that area closely.

Well Repulse was a battlecruiser not a bb.

Prince of Wales I heard poached

Apparently they think they're above the law

Who's law??! American hegemony?..British imperialism??..French colonialism??🤣🤑🤮

Thanks for sharing. I think we forget what it was like for the sailors, no matter what navy they served in, to experience the horror of having their ship, their home, blasted and burned from under them. People who fight for their countries don't start wars, but they bear the consequences of fighting in them.

The Destroyers played SUCH an important role in the war... they were the ones that got in the way of some of the worst of the fighting, and, early in the war, their torpedoes were just awful.... they also took the worst of heavy seas and having the least amount of fuel... they fought big ships and subs and they were true heroes! Hard as nails...

Didn't Hamman's depth charges explode when she went under? There may not be much to find but confetti... I've heard of several cases where a destroyer's depth charges exploded as it sank, and a recent book I read dealing with the concussive effect of underwater explosions doesn't paint a pretty picture of the effects that causes on survivors in the water...

God Bless your father and his shipmates.

@@stevenpomeroy5915Thank you !

It's kind of fun to think about, though, huh? Somehow I can't work up much sympathy for the pilots who participated in a sneak attack before the declaration of war.

@@SWog617 That's because you're an a__hole. Those pilots had no idea that their attack turned into a "Day of Infamy", and that the declaration of war was delayed because of a slow translation. SOLDIERS don't make the rules or the conditions for battle. They carry out their orders with honor and deserve respect. Decades later, even the combatants have made peace with bygone days and have shared their memories with each other as friends.

I can definitely work up sympathy for people who were on the recieving end of such ruthless and brutal discipline.

​@@SWog617It had already been repeatedly revealed that what you have stated was due to communication with due in part to time the zones not maliciousness, but war is war and if it pleases you to insult the dead, enjoy yourself, they have no advocate.

Actually, any Japanese pilot who took off on June 4th and was aloft while they were bombed had to watch their carrier burn, then ditched at sea due to fuel exhaustion with no place to land, aside from some of the morning CAP fighters who were able to recover aboard Hiryu. None of the Japanese aircraft were away on strikes when their ships were hit. Any aloft at the time of the bombings were defensive fighters protecting their ships.

A great day that came at a very high cost for the flyboys. Enterprise lost most of her TBDs, and roughly 2/3rds of her SBDs from the morning strike. A few of those missing aircrew would be rescued, but not the majority. Hornet's Air Group, aside from Torpedo 8, performed abysmally on June 4. They missed the morning action, all the fighters ran out of fuel on the morning strike and ditched, and the SBDs didn't hit anything in the evening when they finally did find the enemy. Yorktown's Air Group performed best in the morning strike, delivering a somewhat co ordinated attack, but still took significant losses of TBDs. The surviving fighters and SBDs from Yorktown would go on to augment the heavily depleted Enterprise Air Group for the rest of the battle.

@@carloscisneros9081 Yes, but yet worth it. By removing those ships, the IJN was effectively decimated and the tide was turing.

All of Titanic's rust will ensure the Camara guys change subject before long.

China-flag ships and Indo-Pacific pirate vessels have been arrested lately. After using explosive devices to collapse war graves so clam-shell type metal grabs can hoist loose metal. Aircraft, Liberty Ships, Warships. and Submarines have been removed for steel smelting purposes. Made in China metal product labels won't tell us if our war dead await purchase.

What’s left of her is likely well preserved.

It's funny we have a "most overrated shipwreck"

@@m.streicher8286 I found the Titanic very very interesting. I think being able to see the ship and all the personal items brought up and the fact that my grandparents remembered it because their generation (born 1889 and 1892) believed ships like the Titanic were very safe. My grandparents witnessed the huge losses of sailing cargo ships pre WW1. I served in the Navy in thr 80’s and 90’s. So I find naval vessels lost have an emotional connection. For a a few minutes I think of the young men who lost their lives, the families and treasure lost.

Yes we all know that

​@@josephdillard9907Yeah, folks gotta realize that if you clicked on this video, more than likely you are a student of history, hence you know about the ships conversions.

Also, IJN CDR Minoru Genda's account of the battle should be required reading for WWII historians.

The IJN's aircraft carriers were built in a very different way depending on the circumstances at the time of their construction, which is very understandable since the budget and shipbuilding docks were limited. 　The aircraft carrier "Akagi" was built as the second ship of the cruiser battleship Amagi class, but during its construction, the two ships "Amagi and Akagi" were converted to aircraft carriers by the Washington Convention. However, the construction of the "Amagi" was cancelled due to damage to the hull caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake, and the first ship of the battleship Kaga class, which was to become the target ship, was converted to an aircraft carrier. As Japan's first large mainline aircraft carriers, the "Akagi and Kaga" are easily distinguishable from each other as they are distinctive ships because they were converted separately from a battlecruiser and a battleship.

@@isegata1 very true. They were also inspired heavily by British designs from the period as well. You can see this in the Courageous class carriers which were battlecruiser conversations themselves.

Nearly 60 ships went down in iron bottom sound. Although i think a good number have been removed. Like the remaining ships of the Tokyo express that beached themselves.

There's a book about the loss, discovery and condition of the Savo ships.

It didn't help when she toppled over in drydock a while back, I suspect her next trip out will be a while.

Apparently Petrel was sold to the US navy. At least from what I heard. So it’s doubtful Petrel will ever go back to Midway.

​@@USSEnterpriseA1701yea that didn't help things out any.

COVID is such garbage!!! The super rich just getting richer!!!

my Dad was on the Yorktown, when the wreck was first found and pics were taken of the wreck, i showed those pics to Dad, and there's a pic of the anti aircraft guns he was on , his only comment about the wreck was their's things in his footlocker he would like to have back and when the japanese were making their bomb and torpedo runs they were close enough they could see their eyes really never did he ever talk much about it like so many other ww2 vets what they saw and did they took to the grave with them

Very shamefull indeed 😢

You can thank Bill Clinton for getting China into the WTO, now the entire World has to pay a price.

It’s almost as if the Chinese revel in being obnoxious.

...processed and sent back to America to make tin cans!!?? Crazy world hey??🤪

@@glengrant3884 They’re probably using it to make more counterfeit US coins to dump into the collector market.

Ballard wanted to look for Shinano,but the Japanese government denied him permission

@@lukewalken1316 because once the coordinates are known, China will loot the corpse.

At least being so far down, their safe from chinese scrap dealers/pirates.

​@@sirmalus5153Agreed.

RIP to the American sailors and Marines, not so for the japs. In 1942 they were disturbingly evil. If this comment offends you look here on RU-vid for qualifying proof that the japs killed our sailor pilots by drowning and on another ship they chopped their heads off and then cut them in half and then over board. To hell with the japs that died in that battle.

It's not because the decks were made of wood. Actually they like all the US carriers were wood planked over thin steel. Wood was used on decks because it was cheap to fix or replace, it was less slippery when wet and it didn't get so hot in under the sun. The reason the Japanese carriers burnt so badly was do to poor ventilation and storage of av gas. Lexington suffered the same fate. Starting with Ranger the American carrier decks were even more open and just raised platforms than the Japanese with massive shutters all along the sides for ultra ventilation.

Graf Spee?

​@@michaelinhouston9086graf spee is a cruiser, graf zeppelin was the german carrier

@@hashteraksgage3281 Thanks

I think they found Graf Zeppelin.

@@tbd-1 or was it Led Zeppelin?

She was scuttled on February 27, 1942 off of Java. She had just finished delivering aircraft to the Dutch East Indies when she was spotted by a Japanese flight. She was attacked and hit with torpedoes. She survived the assault, but was unrecoverable due to her engine rooms being completely flooded. Her escorts, the USS Whipple and USS Edsall, pulled her survivors onboard and sent two torpedoes into her, scuttling her. I don’t know if anyone has found her wreck, but her rough coordinates are known, based of course off of survivor accounts.

But, as demonstrated by the HIJMS Taiho, armored flight-decks and enclosed internals do not really matter if your crews are untrained and lack initiative in the damage control department. She was such a beauty, too.

Unfortunately the armored deck didn’t really help Shinano in the end lmao

Dad was at the coral sea battle on the yorktown, the lexington was sunk, but also 1 japnese carrier was sunk and another was damaged, that's why at midway they faced 4 japanese carrier instead of six

@@Dennis-dn4wt You are correct in your opinion as to why only 4 ships were operational. This has no effect on the Japanese ship that sank because it was small. One damaged Japanese ship (Shokaku) and one ship of the same type (Zuikaku) were needed.

Kaga and Akagi. Both Japanese aircraft carriers, but two different ships which sank close to each other because they were part of the same carrier group.

@@Silver_Stinkeye yes I am aware of this. The other 2 carriers sunk during the battle were the Hiryu and Soryu.

It is also possible that the pieces were small enough to be buried under the bottom mud.

Not likely. USS Hammann sank within minutes of being torpedoed while USS Yorktown stayed afloat and drifting until the next morning. Depending upon winds and currents, she probably moved several miles.

Titanic was on a designated route. These warships were... until they had to take evasive action during warfare, hence why you don't have a precise area where they went down at.

沈んだ加賀に艦橋はありません。攻撃を受けた際、爆弾の一発が艦橋横に着弾し、その爆風によって艦橋は跡形もなく吹き飛びました。

I saw that as well!

China poaches extinct sharks,plunders neighbors resources and 100% insults the west's war graves..Should go all out against such crumbs

Let get scrap from a sunken Chinese ship and see how they like that

@@lukewalken1316 they do themselves

Americans and Japanese have been stripping the planet for eons!!? Grow up kids!!🤣😂

Navy should sink every ship they find pillaging war relics--its grave robbing plain and simple

Not for the unradiated, but thehigh quality steel they were made of, all that hardened armour is far better steel than they produce now. Modern steel production doesn't us the atmosphere but pump oxygen

@@adamcarreras-neal4697 It has to do with the radiation.