Akagi, a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the raid on Pearl Harbor, was sunk at the Battle of Midway. Now, explorers have captured its image on film.

In this photo provided by the Ocean Exploration Trust, the chrysanthemum flower crest, an honored imperial symbol of Japan, can still be seen prominently on the bow of aircraft carrier Akagi 81 ...

The Japanese Imperial Navy's Akagi was surveyed along with two other aircraft carriers by a crew aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, according to the nonprofit group Ocean Exploration Trust.

Undersea video of lost WWII aircraft carriers provides new clues ... U.S.S. Yorktown and two Japanese aircraft carriers sunk during ... the bow of aircraft carrier Akagi some 81 years after ...

All three aircraft carriers were found previously, the Yorktown in 1998 and the Japanese ships four years ago.The Akagi was only preliminarily identified, however, and limited images were recorded ...

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

Then, the team recorded – for the first time since its sinking – sonar images that indicated the long-lost Akagi aircraft carrier has been found in 18,000 feet of water in the ...

By MARK THIESSEN (Associated Press) Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway and co… ...

At the start of WWII, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s aircraft carriers were among the most powerful tools of war in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japan launched a ...

Besides sinking the Akagi, the Kaga and two other Japanese aircraft carriers, U.S. forces shot down more than 250 Japanese airplanes. More than 3,000 Japanese servicemen died.

Remote submersibles conducted archeological surveys of the Akagi and the Kaga, two of the Japanese aircraft carriers destroyed during the June 1942 battle, as well as the U.S.S. Yorktown.

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