One of the most well-known of them is the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, which fought in the Coral Sea and Midway before going missing in the middle of the Pacific in June 1942. Her specific location of repose was unclear for decades afterward. In 1998, a US Navy and National Geographic expedition discovered the shipwreck about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu, according to NOAA. In April 2025 a crew from NOAA Ocean Exploration came back with a more ambitious plan: to look inside the ship’s hangar for the first time.
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