The team also explored other iconic WWII wrecks in the area including the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga and the USS Yorktown. The Akagi ’s wreckage appears buckled and shows signs of heavy damage.

Deep in the South Pacific Ocean, researchers have located the final resting place of the USS Hornet, the World War II aircraft carrier sunk in a 1942 battle with the Japanese Navy. Overhead sonar ...

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found Newly released close-up videos and images of three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the Battle of Midway are reviving haunting memories for ...

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.

The Izumo-class Kaga might sound familiar to World War II historians. That's because it shares a name with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The Kaga was the third ...

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.