The most surprising find was the first-ever discovery of underwater aircraft that had flown on the Midway battlefield, NOAA ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle ... Midway, the Indian Ocean Raid.

The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of Midway. NOAA Ocean Exploration ... “likely part of Yorktown’s reserve force on the first morning of the battle ...