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A compilation of sonar images showing the wreckage of the Japanese carrier Akagi. Credit - Vulcan, Inc.
October 24, 2019
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Deep sea explorers aboard a research vessel have used sonar images to pinpoint the location of the Akagi and Kaga, two carriers that took part in the Battle of Midway in 1942...The Petrel crew had spent weeks surveying the area, documenting more than 500 square nautical miles before picking up the wreckage in a conservation site known as Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the atoll region of the Central Pacific.

 

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