Exploring the Wreck of USS Yorktown - Episode 505

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall take you guys on an exclusive look at the remarkable footage taken by NOAA during their recent dive on the wreck of the USS Yorktown (CV-5). Seth and Jon tour the wreck and focus in on some of the highlights of the footage, explaining what some of the material is, why it looks like it does, the state of the wreck, and obviously, the history of the ship and her demise during the Battle of Midway. Using archival footage shot on June 4, 1942, as well as archival imagery, the guys give you a then-and-now look at the wreck in this super cool episode. **Special thanks go to Phil Hartmeyer, NOAA, and the crew and staff of OKEANOS for the use of this footage.**

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hello and welcome to episode 505 of the Unauthorized History of Pacific War podcast.
0:48.7	My name is Seth Paredon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
0:52.5	And with me, as always, is my co-host,
0:54.8	fantastic author and good friend and historian, John Parshal. How are you this May 6th?
0:59.9	Doing good. Doing good. Here we are. Weather's warming up. We are finally in full-blown
1:05.6	biking season here in Minnesota. So that's great as far as I'm concerned.
1:10.7	That does sound nice. It's getting, it's beautiful weather down here right now, so that's great as far as I'm concerned. That does sound nice.
1:11.8	It's getting, it's beautiful weather down here right now, but I know.
1:15.6	It's coming.
1:16.7	Oh, yeah.
1:18.3	It is definitely coming.
1:20.2	So, all right.
1:20.7	So we got a pretty cool show we're going to do today.
1:24.3	A couple of years ago, which is hard to believe that it was out long ago
1:28.3	but it was 2023 when noah first went down to yorktown uh well i guess would be for the second time
1:34.3	ballard of course did it first and we did an episode on that and akagi and kaga well as most of you
1:40.2	who are watching this no noo went down what now a week two A week, two weeks ago? I guess what was? A two
1:45.6	weeks ago. Yeah, something like that. And they got some astounding footage. Well, we got our hands
1:50.7	on said footage and we're going to go through some of the highlights of that stuff today. Just be
1:55.3	advised that it is 10 hours of material. This episode ain't 10 hours long. No. No one could stand to hear me talk for that long, least of all myself. So, without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and pull this stuff up. Fair with me here, John. Let me pull this up. Yeah, you did a little, did a little editing. I did.
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