Lost Ships of WW2
Rob Kraft and his team aboard the research vessel Petrel are in search of the most iconic ships of WW2. Using some of the world's most high-tech equipment, their spectacular discoveries can now be seen for the first time in 80 years.
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- Ep 1
1.USS Indianapolis: Abandoned at Sea
29-05-202249mJust weeks before WW2 ended, the USS Indianapolis violently sank, and 900 sailors were stranded at sea with no rescue in sight. For five days, they fought off exposure and shark at...
- Ep 2
2.USS Ward: America's First Shot
29-05-202243mUndersea explorers aboard the research vessel Petrel detect a wreck off the coast of the Philippines that fits the profile of an American destroyer. Could it be the wreck of the US...
- Ep 3
3.Lady Lex: Queen of the Coral Sea
29-05-202245mThe USS Lexington birthed naval aviation and was victorious in the first carrier-to-carrier battle during WWII. Hours later, it erupted in flames due to enemy fire. Now, after 80 y...
- Ep 4
4.USS Hornet: America Strikes Back
29-05-202248mThe Petrel team searches for the American aircraft carrier USS Hornet. The Doolittle Raid was launched off her deck to avenge Pearl Harbor. But six months later, the ship's life wa...
- Ep 5
5.USS Juneau: Brothers in Arms
29-05-202247mWhat happened aboard the USS Juneau would inspire the film "Saving Private Ryan." Five brothers were lost, but not all perished when the ship went down. At least one brother was am...
- Ep 6
6.Iron Bottom Sound: Graveyard of the Pacific
29-05-202245mIn one night, over one thousand Allied sailors died when four cruisers went down in flames. They rest in a graveyard littered with so many ships that it has become known as "Iron B...
- Ep 7
7.Titan of the Rising Sun
29-05-202245mRob Kraft is hunting for Musashi, the biggest battleship ever built and considered unsinkable by the Japanese. How did the U.S. Navy sink this "indestructible" ship? And why did it...
- Ep 8
8.USS Johnston: America's Deepest Loss
29-05-202240mResearch vessel Petrel picks up what they believe to be the debris trail of the USS Johnston.
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