Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1941, The Japanese Carrier Strike Force sails from its base in The Kuril Islands out into the Northern Pacific...its target is Hawaii and the US Pacific Fleet. The fleet consists of 5 aircraft carriers, 2 battlecruisers, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers and 3 submarines (these will stay with the Task Force). There are also 8 tankers and supply ships. The 6th carrier, Akagi departs from Hitokappu Bay in the Kurile Islands and links up with the other 5 carriers at sea. Meanwhile, at

352K views · 148 reactions | Deep-sea explorers and the U.S. Navy searching the ocean floor off of Midway Atoll have found some of the carriers sunk in the most pivotal air-sea battle of World War II, at Midway Atoll in June, 1942. So far they have found two of the Japanese aircraft carriers nearly 18,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. | Military Times | Facebook

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