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A lonely outpost of coral and sand.
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A thousand miles from anywhere.
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Yet here,
on a blue morning in June, 1942,
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America and Japan fought for control
of the Pacific
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and changed the history of the world.
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It was one of
the greatest Naval battles of all time,
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a turning point in
the Second World War in the Pacific
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Midway.
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Here in a few bloody hours,
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thousands of young men
sacrificed their lives.
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Now to the shadowy waters off Midway
comes Robert Ballard,
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the man who discovered the Titanic.
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Ballard's quest is
to fiind the American
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and Japanese aircraft carriers
that were sunk in the battle,
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including the U.S.S. Yorktown.
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But the ships are lost more
than three miles down
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unseen, untouched on the ocean floor
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the fiinal resting place
of many young men.
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A story of martyrs and heroes,
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admirals and airmen...
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of secret codes and lucky hunches
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of lost chances and
the painful cost of victory
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all in one monumental day.
Tragedy and Triumph.
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The battle for Midway.
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Midway.
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It is hard to ignore the archaeology
of war in this place.
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Nearly a lifetime after the clash
at Midway,
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four former soldiers walk
the island's white coral sands.
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Two Americans, Bill Surgi
and Harry Ferrier,
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and two Japanese, Haruo Yoshino
and Yuji Akamatsu
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all veterans of the battle.
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The last time the veterans were here,
they came as enemies.
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Now, as respectful comrades, they will
explore the meaning of their ordeal.
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I met the two Japanese gentlemen,
aviators, and, so I've made my peace.
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And I have no animosity toward them.
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They were warriors, like we were,
just doing their job.
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Welcome aboard.
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All in their 70s now,
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the survivors have traveled thousands
of miles
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to join undersea explorer
Robert Ballard
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in the search for the five aircraft
carriers lost at Midway.
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Ballard's quest,
sponsored by National Geographic,
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is to fiind Bill Surgi's ship,
the Yorktown,
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and Yuji and Haruo's carrier, the Kaga
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It will be the voyage of a lifetime
for the vets.
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May, 1942.
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The United States and Japan are at war
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It is five months
since the devastating sneak attack
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on the Pacific fleet
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Now Japan is poised for total
domination of East Asia and the Pacific.
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Pearl Harbor.
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In a dingy basement
beneath command headquarters,
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Navy code breakers have pulled off
the greatest intelligence coup
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of the Pacific War.
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Out of coded enemy radio transmissions
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they have teased out the secret plans
for the next major Japanese attack
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A huge Japanese task force
is preparing
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to strike a crippling blow against
the already weakened U.S. Navy.
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It will happen at Midway, as early as
June 3rdless than a month away.
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Yet now the U.S. Knows what's coming.
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And the Americans will lie in wait,
hoping to ambush the Japanese fleet.
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Day one of the Ballard expedition.
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To begin their exploration of the past
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the veterans travel with
Ballard 180 miles from Midway
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to the place where
Ballard thinks the Yorktown went down.
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There is no X to mark this spot,
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just blue water and
the occasional gooney bird.
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But below the waves, Ballard believes
he will discover history.
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For here, young men came to fight
and to die.
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I mean, to be at the very spot,
you know,
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this is where the battle took place.
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This is like going to Gettysburg,
this is like going to Bull Run,
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this is like going to Normandy.
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This is where a great chapter
in human history,
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tragic in many ways,
was played out on the stage,
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and we're on the stage right now.
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While Ballard studies the terrain,
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the veterans explore their own
landscape of memory and loss.
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This is what I looked like back then.
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This was taken before
the Pearl Harbor attack
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I think this is what saved my life.
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This is the hat I was wearing
at the time.
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Very brave, very brave.
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A little older, a little wiser.
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Pearl Harbor, 1942.
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Yorktown sailor Bill Surgi hears they
are headed for a place called Midway.
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The word Midway was a mystique,
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mystery,
an awesome word to banter about.
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We were not fully aware of
what actually was going on there.
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So all we knew was that
we needed help at Midway.
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Yorktown will rendezvous
with her sister ships,
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Hornet and Enterprise,
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at a point approximately 325 miles
northeast of Midway.
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Their mission: To ambush the Japanese.
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At the same time,
four japanese carriers,
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Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu,
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under the command
of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo,
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are steaming for Midway.
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These are the same machines
and men who bombed Pearl Harbor.
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The Japanese know nothing of
the American trap awaiting them.
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Many of the American airmen
and sailors headed toward Midway
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have never faced enemy fire
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including Yorktown radioman
and gunner Lloyd Childers.
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Childers was attached
to a torpedo bomber squadron.
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He can't forget an intelligence
briefiing he attended with other crews.
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They said, if a 15plane squadron
of TBD's makes torpedo runs...
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...against a determined Japanese fleet
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if three of you get through
to deliver torpedoes,
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you will have considered that
you have accomplished your mission.
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I immediately became alarmed,
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because the odds were not good.
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Lloyd Childers will soon fiind out just
how bad the odds really are.
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It's the seventh day of the expedition
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Time to part the waves and
take the first glimpse of the bottom
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three miles down.
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Ballard's eyes will be the U.S. Navy's
remotely operated robot explorer
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called ATV
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equipped with lights and video cameras
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Will Ballard fiinally, after years
of planning and enormous effort,
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be able to fiind the downed Yorktown?
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For the veterans,
the ATV is a time machine
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carrying them back to a distant world
of fury and fire.
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All stations, deploying the vehicle
into the water now.
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I remember walking up and down those
decks and 56 years after the fact,
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I'm gonna look at those decks again.
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And it'll bring back memories.
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The ATV has now traveled over two miles
and almost five decades.
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The ocean bottom is getting close.
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Twelve thousand feet
The depth Ballard found Titanic.
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All stations...
past the onefivethousand feet.
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Passing onefive thousand feet, aye.
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Approaching 16,000, the depth Ballard
found the battleship Bismarck
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Nearing the sea floor, deeper than
Ballard has ever gone before.
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Under the relentless pressure
of the ocean depths,
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key equipment on the ATV has imploded.
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It has collapsed into itself,
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reducing metal and glass to rubble.
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The ATV is crippled.
Just how badly no one yet knows.
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It's a disaster that may mean the end
of the expedition.
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June 3, 1942
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The white sands of Midway
are now heavily defended
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by hundreds of
young American servicemen
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and dozens of bombers,
fighters, torpedo planes.
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The battle is less than 24 hours away.
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Among those waiting is a small
sixplane torpedo bomber squadron.
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Both the planes and their young crews
are untested in combat,
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but the young pilots are eager
to face the Japanese.
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Seventeenyearold Harry Ferrier
served as a radioman and gunner.
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You don't think about the fact
that people do get killed, you know,
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as a teenager, which I really was.
You think you're immortal.
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And we had what we thought were
the best airplanes
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that the Navy had come up with
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and we would really give
the Japanese the hell,
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I guess you'd say, and come back
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And it didn't work that way.
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Dawn, June 4th nearly six months
to the day since Pearl Harbor.
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Two hundredforty miles from Midway,
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Admiral Chuichi Nagumo readies
his attack
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He is supremely confident
of the fiinal outcome
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and utterly unaware of the American
aircraft carriers slowly closing in.
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My spirits were, well, up to then,
we had won ever battle we fought,
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so we thought we would win again.
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Now is the moment of attack
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Six a.m.
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With Japanese aircraft bearing down,
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the American planes on Midway scramble
into the air.
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With them is the torpedo bomber
carrying Harry Ferrier,
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Bert Earnest and the third member
of their crew,
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Jay Manning, the turret gunner.
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They're going after
the Japanese carriers.
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Earnest, Ferrier and
Manning clear the island just minutes
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before enemy planes hit Midway.
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The Americans fight back
with everything they've got.
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Less than half an hour later,
the first Japanese strike is over.
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But if the enemy aircraft carriers
are not stopped soon, Midway may fall.
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Sixfifty a.m. June 4, 1942.
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A hundredandsixty miles
from a battletorn Midway,
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the torpedo bomber carrying Ferrier,
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Earnest and Manning head straight
at the Japanese fleet.
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As they near the carriers,
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the Japanese fighter attack
becomes more intense.
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And tragically effective.
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But very shortly,
Manning had stopped firing,
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and so I looked back over my shoulder
to see what was going on,
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and he was just hanging down
in his harness in the turret
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and obviously had been killed.
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And then, really, the next thing
I remember was waking up
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with my head hanging down
and blood pouring off my head.
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Their plane is shot up.
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Their controls and compass out
of commission.
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Their comrade Jay Manning is dead.
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But Ferrier and Earnest
are still alive
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and now they have
to fiind their way home.
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I decided to climb up above the clouds
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and see if I could see anything,
and I did.
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And when I got up there,
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I saw a great big plume of
smoke over to the east.
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...and realized that probably
was Midway, which had been attacked.
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They manage to land safely in a
plane that is literally shot to pieces.
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After getting patched up at
a field hospital,
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Harry Ferrier waits for the return of
the other five planes in his squadron.
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He waits in vain.
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But it was afternoon,
you know, early afternoon,
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and it became obvious that our airplane
was the only one that had come back
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that the other five did not,
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and we eventually just had to accept
the fact that they
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all five were shot down.
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It is day eight of the expedition.
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Ballard's robot explorer, the ATV,
is still crippled.
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And the Navy doesn't know if they can get it and fully running again.
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They need more time,
the one thing Ballard can't spare.
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Fortunately, the sonar
is still going strong.
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Instead of just waiting,
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Ballard leaves
the phantom Yorktown behind
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to look for Japanese carriers
at a site 170 miles away.
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The Japanese veterans
have not seen these waters in 56 years
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not since the death of their ship,
the Kaga.
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Yet here, time is erased.
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My heart is racing in anticipation
of seeing the ship.
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I keep remembering the image
of the sinking carrier.
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I hope it is found soon.
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After all the frustration and delay,
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the ATV makes it to the bottom
of the sea.
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But all too soon,
Ballard realizes the bottom is barren
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no carrier, no planes
just rocks and mud.
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No excuses.
I just didn't fiind it. Period.
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Round one.
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To Kaga.
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I'll get to Yorktown.
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I really want the Yorktown.
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That's where I'm headed.
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But one unspoken question
is inescapable.
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If the sonar was wrong
about fiinding the Kaga,
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is it also wrong about the location
of the Yorktown?
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Seven a.m. The waters off Midway.
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Japanese commander, Admiral Nagumo,
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is still completely in the dark
about the trap awaiting him.
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Eighttwenty a.m.
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Admiral Nagumo receives
truly startling news.
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His scout planes sight the one thing
they never expected to see
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an American carrier.
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Nagumo is shocked to discover
he has a real fight on his hands.
243
00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:05,024
Now he must decide on his next step.
244
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Should he launch a
limited strike immediately?
245
00:26:09,367 --> 00:26:13,599
Or regroup, refuel,
and rearm all of his forces
246
00:26:13,738 --> 00:26:18,141
and then obliterate what he believes
to be the one American carrier?
247
00:26:20,045 --> 00:26:22,206
He decides to wait.
248
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It is a decision that will change
the course of the entire war.
249
00:26:29,888 --> 00:26:30,980
While Nagumo waits,
250
00:26:31,122 --> 00:26:34,785
the American pilots wing their way
towards his carriers.
251
00:26:36,728 --> 00:26:37,752
Yet very quickly,
252
00:26:37,896 --> 00:26:41,662
many of the American squadrons get
separated from each other.
253
00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:50,472
Most of the torpedo bombers fiind
themselves on their own
254
00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:55,603
without fighter protection from
the fast, lethal Japanese Zeros.
255
00:26:58,416 --> 00:27:01,715
One after another,
the young torpedo bomber crews attack
256
00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:07,189
just as they have been taught stead on
low, straight at the target
257
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,952
directly into murderous enemy fire.
258
00:27:13,431 --> 00:27:17,697
And one after another,
they are blown out of the sky.
259
00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:46,624
The Enterprise torpedo squadron
18 out of 28 men killed.
260
00:27:50,235 --> 00:27:54,365
The Yorktown's 21 out of 24.
261
00:27:57,075 --> 00:28:02,775
And of the 30 from Hornet's torpedo
squad, only one man makes it back
262
00:28:07,452 --> 00:28:12,185
Yet not a single torpedo makes a
single successful strike
263
00:28:12,323 --> 00:28:15,087
against any of the Japanese carriers.
264
00:28:22,133 --> 00:28:27,730
Despite all the sacrifice,
the Americans are losing the battle.
265
00:28:35,146 --> 00:28:38,206
America is facing defeat at Midway.
266
00:28:40,585 --> 00:28:42,746
And the enemy commander,
Admiral Nagumo,
267
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:47,483
is set to launch a massive attack
against the American carriers.
268
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,894
Nagumo's crews work feverishly
269
00:28:51,029 --> 00:28:53,725
to get nearly a hundred warplanes
into the air.
270
00:28:54,499 --> 00:28:55,932
Abandoning all caution,
271
00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:59,696
they leave explosives and
gasoline strewn everywhere.
272
00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:04,233
The decks are a disaster waiting
to happen.
273
00:29:05,610 --> 00:29:08,807
Less than a hundred miles away,
19,000 feet up,
274
00:29:08,947 --> 00:29:12,246
is the last American hope,
the dive bombers.
275
00:29:12,383 --> 00:29:15,318
But none of them can fiind the enemy.
276
00:29:15,954 --> 00:29:19,151
The Japanese have taken
a 90 degree turn northward
277
00:29:19,290 --> 00:29:21,349
to engage the U.S. Ships.
278
00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:25,718
Then Enterprise's dive bombing
squadron plays a hunch
279
00:29:25,864 --> 00:29:27,627
and changes course.
280
00:29:29,234 --> 00:29:32,965
And in their sights appear
the four Japanese carriers
281
00:29:33,104 --> 00:29:36,870
Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu.
282
00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:42,069
And there is not a Japanese fighter
anywhere to be seen.
283
00:29:44,048 --> 00:29:47,108
The enemy fighters are still
too busy defending their carriers
284
00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:50,847
against the last of
the American torpedo planes
285
00:29:51,322 --> 00:29:54,314
to stop the dive bombers high above.
286
00:29:56,961 --> 00:30:00,795
It's a sight Lt.
Dick Best has been longing for.
287
00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:07,427
I was amazed to see that a,
the deck was a bright yellow,
288
00:30:07,572 --> 00:30:09,335
because our decks had been stained
289
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:12,307
a north Pacific blue ever since
the start of the war.
290
00:30:12,443 --> 00:30:15,901
And in addition to the deck being
a bright yellow,
291
00:30:16,047 --> 00:30:19,073
the big rising sun up forward
of the elevator,
292
00:30:19,217 --> 00:30:21,811
it was glowing red,
like a tremendous advertisement.
293
00:30:21,953 --> 00:30:25,081
Here we are, we are the Japanese Navy.
294
00:30:25,657 --> 00:30:28,148
He dives toward the rising sun.
295
00:30:46,711 --> 00:30:50,511
And releases his bomb
as does the rest of his group
296
00:30:50,648 --> 00:30:53,879
onto Japanese decks now crowded
with torpedoes,
297
00:30:54,018 --> 00:30:57,715
bombs, gasoline, planesand men.
298
00:30:59,791 --> 00:31:01,918
She was a mass of flames
from bow to stern,
299
00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:04,392
with tremendous eruptions coming up
300
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:07,259
every four to five seconds
as a bomb must've hit.
301
00:31:10,435 --> 00:31:14,030
Japanese survivors float hour after
hour in the water,
302
00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:19,371
in silence with the dead and dying
as Kaga burns.
303
00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:22,843
Most are rescued by
other Japanese ships
304
00:31:22,981 --> 00:31:24,209
but not all.
305
00:31:26,651 --> 00:31:29,950
We were fortunate to have been rescued
so quickly.
306
00:31:31,389 --> 00:31:35,655
But there were still men left swimming
and they committed suicide.
307
00:31:46,504 --> 00:31:51,942
In five short minutes Kaga, Akagi,
and Soryu have been devastated
308
00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:56,945
scores of planes destroyed,
many hundreds of young men killed.
309
00:31:58,283 --> 00:32:02,151
Many of the Japanese airmen are caught
in the sky above their burning ships
310
00:32:02,287 --> 00:32:04,016
with nowhere to land.
311
00:32:07,859 --> 00:32:13,161
In just five minutes, the cream
of the Japanese Navy is fimished.
312
00:32:15,733 --> 00:32:18,531
But the battle is far from over.
313
00:32:31,249 --> 00:32:35,015
At first, I would like to read
a letter to my friends here.
314
00:32:38,856 --> 00:32:41,848
Ballard's search for
the Japanese carriers has failed.
315
00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:46,054
And the two Japanese veterans
will soon leave the Laney Chouest.
316
00:32:51,302 --> 00:32:55,466
But the voyage to Midway allows Haruo
and Yuji the opportunity
317
00:32:55,606 --> 00:32:59,201
to bid their fallen comrades one
last farewell
318
00:32:59,344 --> 00:33:03,280
and to remember all the young men
who died in battle.
319
00:33:08,753 --> 00:33:13,986
We believe that the innumerable spirits
who sacrificed their lives for their
320
00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:17,993
country should be forever honored
for their distinguished service.
321
00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:22,297
We are honored to have fought
alongside you in battle.
322
00:33:22,867 --> 00:33:26,462
Veterans from both countries have
overcome past animosities
323
00:33:26,604 --> 00:33:29,095
and have pledged a renewed peace.
324
00:33:30,074 --> 00:33:33,305
Spirits, please rest in peace.
325
00:33:54,198 --> 00:33:58,601
Yes, I was thinking, as Haruo and Yuji
were paying homage to their shipmates,
326
00:33:58,736 --> 00:34:03,935
that I, too, lost 45 shipmates
at this very spot.
327
00:34:04,075 --> 00:34:07,602
As all the planes in my squadron,
except the one I was in,
328
00:34:07,745 --> 00:34:10,839
were actually shot down here among
the Japanese battle force,
329
00:34:10,982 --> 00:34:15,078
so this was a very solemn moment
for me as well as for them.
330
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:41,435
Eleven a.m. On June 4th.
331
00:34:42,447 --> 00:34:46,816
Admiral Nagumo regroups his
surviving planes on the deck of Hiryu
332
00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:50,284
the only carrier
to escape American bombs.
333
00:34:54,425 --> 00:34:57,690
There is still a chance
to emerge victorious.
334
00:34:58,196 --> 00:34:59,891
The Japanese pilots take off,
335
00:35:00,031 --> 00:35:02,932
heading for
the closest American carrier
336
00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:05,065
Yorktown.
337
00:35:40,071 --> 00:35:45,475
The enemy dive bombers score three hits
killing more than a dozen men.
338
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,513
But, unlike the Japanese carriers,
there are no bombs,
339
00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:56,746
torpedoes or fuel on deck
waiting to explode.
340
00:35:57,822 --> 00:36:02,691
For all the smoke and fire,
Yorktown is still afloat.
341
00:36:09,867 --> 00:36:13,803
Two hours later, as the Yorktown
continues to patch herself up,
342
00:36:13,938 --> 00:36:17,305
a second wave of enemy planes target
the carrier.
343
00:36:29,287 --> 00:36:33,485
Yorktown's fighter pilots scramble
eager to engage the enemy.
344
00:36:44,802 --> 00:36:48,568
Down goes one Japanese torpedo bomber
after another.
345
00:37:09,393 --> 00:37:11,793
But still the enemy comes.
346
00:37:21,606 --> 00:37:24,268
I look out there and
here's this torpedo coming,
347
00:37:24,408 --> 00:37:28,344
and it looks like a brand new nickel
just come shining through the water,
348
00:37:28,479 --> 00:37:33,075
right beneath us. And I said,
Oh, my God, this is it.
349
00:37:33,217 --> 00:37:34,809
And it goes off.
350
00:37:35,953 --> 00:37:38,513
One American carrier is down.
351
00:37:38,656 --> 00:37:43,218
The Japanese carrier Hiryu must
be stoppedfast.
352
00:37:50,801 --> 00:37:54,999
When they fiind it, Lt. Dick Best
is right there, once again.
353
00:38:13,591 --> 00:38:17,152
And I did look back when I was
far enough out to the west to turn,
354
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:18,091
and she was aflame,
355
00:38:18,229 --> 00:38:20,720
and burning just the way the ones
in the morning had been.
356
00:38:26,504 --> 00:38:28,995
I felt myself to be the Lord
of creation at the time,
357
00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:30,664
the sense of accomplishment,
358
00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:35,245
and fulfiillment of revenge
is so sweet that
359
00:38:35,379 --> 00:38:40,749
I don't think I ever felt anything
as intensely again in all my life.
360
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:47,020
Caught in the inferno on the Hiryu
is Taisuke Maruyama,
361
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:51,117
one of the torpedo pilots
who had just crippled the Yorktown.
362
00:38:56,934 --> 00:38:59,402
The maintenance crews and emergency
crews who had tried
363
00:38:59,537 --> 00:39:03,268
to extinguish the fire were injured
by the explosion,
364
00:39:03,407 --> 00:39:05,534
and many lost their legs and hands.
365
00:39:12,149 --> 00:39:16,779
The military doctor was operating
on them on the deck soaked in blood.
366
00:39:22,426 --> 00:39:27,056
The troops were burnt black
dead bodies strewn across the deck
367
00:39:36,907 --> 00:39:44,905
Hiryu, Soryu, Akagi, Kaga.
368
00:39:45,549 --> 00:39:49,952
By the end of the day, all four
Japanese carriers have been destroyed.
369
00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:57,119
Hundreds of young men dead, maimed,
burned, or left to drown.
370
00:40:05,436 --> 00:40:06,596
Twentyfour hours later,
371
00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:10,605
the injured Yorktown is still afloat
and headed home
372
00:40:10,741 --> 00:40:13,266
escorted by the destroyer Hammann.
373
00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:20,314
What nobody sees is the enemy
submarine below the surface
374
00:40:21,252 --> 00:40:24,221
with two sitting ducks in her sights.
375
00:40:35,466 --> 00:40:40,631
Japanese torpedoes split the Hammann
in two, taking 81 men to the bottom.
376
00:40:41,205 --> 00:40:43,673
And mortally wound Yorktown.
377
00:40:46,210 --> 00:40:51,671
For nearly a day, the carrier lingers
on the surface, refusing to die.
378
00:40:54,051 --> 00:40:58,112
Yorktown Radioman Lloyd Childers
is in sick bay, on a nearby ship,
379
00:40:58,255 --> 00:41:00,849
with serious wounds to both legs.
380
00:41:02,226 --> 00:41:04,751
He watches his carrier go down.
381
00:41:05,729 --> 00:41:13,693
This huge ship slowly sank below the
water, the waves,
382
00:41:13,838 --> 00:41:18,400
until it disappeared and we watched it
until it was completely gone.
383
00:41:22,713 --> 00:41:24,578
It's very brutal business.
384
00:41:26,417 --> 00:41:30,410
My other thoughts were that
it's a terrible thing
385
00:41:30,554 --> 00:41:36,652
that so called civilized nations could
do things like that to each other,
386
00:41:38,262 --> 00:41:41,356
convincing me that we're not really
civilized yet.
387
00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:48,805
It is Day 19 of the expedition.
388
00:41:50,941 --> 00:41:52,738
It has been hours since Robert Ballard
389
00:41:52,877 --> 00:41:56,836
sent a robot vehicle down
nearly 17,000 feet
390
00:41:56,981 --> 00:41:59,245
to fiind the USS Yorktown.
391
00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:07,783
And half a century since Bill Surgi
has seen his carrier.
392
00:42:10,628 --> 00:42:14,291
Ballard has only a left
to fiind the Yorktown.
393
00:42:19,436 --> 00:42:26,365
After six long hours, the ATV fiinally
reaches bottom, over three miles deep.
394
00:42:37,021 --> 00:42:38,716
All they see are rocks
395
00:42:38,856 --> 00:42:43,418
that have probably rested here
undisturbed for a thousand years.
396
00:42:56,206 --> 00:42:57,833
I wanna keep looking to the left.
397
00:42:59,610 --> 00:43:03,910
Yet within a few moments of
touching down, they see something
398
00:43:04,515 --> 00:43:06,710
something that shouldn't be there.
399
00:43:09,053 --> 00:43:12,318
A smooth patch of ground clear of rock
400
00:43:12,456 --> 00:43:15,357
as though something had swept across
the bottom.
401
00:43:16,026 --> 00:43:20,019
Something unnatural,
something manmade.
402
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:23,589
They follow the trail.
403
00:43:37,014 --> 00:43:38,641
Bingo, bingo, bingo.
404
00:43:41,085 --> 00:43:43,178
Suddenly a glint
405
00:43:43,687 --> 00:43:47,748
a shiny metallic glint catches
the video eye.
406
00:43:48,225 --> 00:43:51,353
Dead ahead, range 150 feet.
407
00:43:52,696 --> 00:43:54,323
Keep it nice and high.
408
00:43:58,869 --> 00:44:01,895
I want him to look down and away.
409
00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:10,746
And now the sonar on the ATV itself
is announcing something big
410
00:44:10,881 --> 00:44:13,645
and oddly beautiful dead ahead.
411
00:44:14,618 --> 00:44:15,642
There it is.
412
00:44:15,786 --> 00:44:19,153
Stop, stop, stop, stop. Contact.
413
00:44:25,229 --> 00:44:29,393
It's defimitely Yorktown.
There's no question about that.
414
00:44:30,968 --> 00:44:33,528
The Yorktown at last
415
00:44:34,571 --> 00:44:37,802
exactly where Ballard thought it
would be.
416
00:44:39,176 --> 00:44:48,050
Hold that, hold that still.
Try to hold that.
417
00:44:51,488 --> 00:44:53,615
I'm lookin' up my ready room right now
418
00:44:53,757 --> 00:44:58,660
this under the bridge on the island,
on the flight deck
419
00:45:01,965 --> 00:45:08,564
Too much, too much,
all the people that did their jobs.
420
00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:10,469
I can see them doin' them now.
421
00:45:13,477 --> 00:45:14,569
Keep coming up.
422
00:45:16,647 --> 00:45:18,274
Oh, Yorktown, you're beautiful.
423
00:45:39,436 --> 00:45:43,372
Okay, now I want to pivot to the right
to zeroninezero.
424
00:46:02,726 --> 00:46:08,926
The Yorktown1,100 miles form Hawaii,
3,000 from Japan,
425
00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:14,063
over 3 miles below the surface.
426
00:46:18,108 --> 00:46:23,512
Her 19,000 tons sunk halfway
into the mud; her bow crushed.
427
00:46:28,552 --> 00:46:31,817
Yet Yorktown is still intact.
428
00:46:37,394 --> 00:46:38,656
The bridge.
429
00:46:44,902 --> 00:46:46,369
The flight deck
430
00:46:53,610 --> 00:46:55,077
The pilot house.
431
00:47:04,121 --> 00:47:06,589
She is nearly untouched by time,
432
00:47:06,723 --> 00:47:11,683
her guns still pointing skyward,
to fend off the fiinal attack
433
00:47:21,271 --> 00:47:23,569
I walked across the deck
and I still got it.
434
00:47:26,677 --> 00:47:27,609
Thanks again for fiinding it.
435
00:47:27,744 --> 00:47:28,403
My pleasure.
436
00:47:28,545 --> 00:47:35,041
And on behalf of the crew,
I'm glad to be here.
437
00:47:35,185 --> 00:47:36,777
Me too.
438
00:47:38,155 --> 00:47:41,818
That's the boat.
I got to see my ready room.
439
00:47:42,926 --> 00:47:46,259
Maybe next time I'll get to see
where I got all this banging at.
440
00:47:46,396 --> 00:47:47,454
Well, we'll be back
441
00:47:50,834 --> 00:47:53,803
That's right. It ain't gettin' away now
442
00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:55,896
Thank you.
443
00:47:57,274 --> 00:47:58,502
How does it feel, Bill?
444
00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:04,339
I'm here, they're not.
445
00:48:04,982 --> 00:48:09,043
So I'm representing the crew
and I did my job.
446
00:48:28,005 --> 00:48:30,337
June 4th, 1942.
447
00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:42,776
America has won the battle for Midway
and stopped Japan cold.
448
00:48:55,632 --> 00:48:59,033
The Japanese Navy would never recover
from its losses.
449
00:49:01,438 --> 00:49:04,839
For the Japanese pilots, the defeat
at Midway and the death
450
00:49:04,975 --> 00:49:07,466
of their comrades is
just the first agony.
451
00:49:07,611 --> 00:49:11,308
They will return home to fiind
themselves kept in isolation,
452
00:49:11,448 --> 00:49:12,881
in silence.
453
00:49:13,984 --> 00:49:16,885
They treated us like prisoners of war.
454
00:49:17,020 --> 00:49:18,851
We were shut away from outside contact
455
00:49:18,989 --> 00:49:22,152
since they were afraid
we might leak information.
456
00:49:37,174 --> 00:49:42,168
You see the veterans who've come back
whether they're Japanese and Americans
457
00:49:42,312 --> 00:49:45,304
And we brought them here to this spot,
and it spoke to them.
458
00:49:46,049 --> 00:49:48,108
Every one of them cried.
459
00:49:48,652 --> 00:49:52,418
They didn't laugh.
They didn't celebrate. They all cried.
460
00:49:54,257 --> 00:49:57,715
They're hurting.
And this is a half a century later.
461
00:49:58,762 --> 00:50:05,497
So it's their story and what
they're telling us is, don't do this.
462
00:50:05,635 --> 00:50:09,935
This is not fun. It's not wonderful.
463
00:50:19,750 --> 00:50:22,310
Comrades in arms who sleep in darkness
464
00:50:22,452 --> 00:50:25,910
at the bottom of the ocean
for 50 years after the end of the war,
465
00:50:26,523 --> 00:50:28,718
thank you for your sacrifice.
466
00:50:33,363 --> 00:50:40,030
I've brought a tribute, flowers
from Japan, chrysanthemums,
467
00:50:40,170 --> 00:50:42,536
which I've placed on your grave.
468
00:50:42,672 --> 00:50:44,367
My heart is full!
469
00:50:48,845 --> 00:50:50,210
Thank you.
470
00:51:00,223 --> 00:51:01,485
It's difficult,
471
00:51:02,826 --> 00:51:06,694
you think how many people gave up
their lives that day
472
00:51:06,830 --> 00:51:10,266
and they call George Gay and they call
473
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,130
eventually Bert and I,
you know, you're heroes,
474
00:51:13,270 --> 00:51:14,294
but you know, I've said
475
00:51:14,438 --> 00:51:17,066
and I'll always go to my grave
476
00:51:17,207 --> 00:51:20,608
believing that the real heroes died
that day.
477
00:51:22,179 --> 00:51:24,306
They earned a victory.
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