Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S09E21.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BTN_track3_[und] Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:01,867 --> 00:00:06,667 [narrator] An American machine of war given a second life. 2 00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,467 Landing people on the moon was an epic defining moment, 3 00:00:10,467 --> 00:00:12,867 but it wasn't the end of the mission. 4 00:00:15,567 --> 00:00:20,100 [narrator] An eerie shrine that offered the promise of immortality. 5 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:22,900 Children would burst into tears 6 00:00:22,967 --> 00:00:26,700 at the sight of the departed father of their country. 7 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:30,000 [narrator] And a labor of love born from the ashes of trauma. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,000 [narrator] And a labor of love born from the ashes of trauma. 9 00:00:34,367 --> 00:00:39,300 This was architecture intended to look forward to a new kind of future. 10 00:00:45,166 --> 00:00:46,567 [narrator] Decaying relics... 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,266 Ruins of lost worlds... 12 00:00:51,867 --> 00:00:54,467 Sites haunted by the past... 13 00:00:55,667 --> 00:00:58,867 Their secrets waiting to be revealed. 14 00:01:08,166 --> 00:01:10,567 In Alameda County, California, 15 00:01:10,567 --> 00:01:15,166 lies a behemoth with a story that is out of this world. 16 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,667 [Prof. Geoff Wawro] Obviously, we're in San Francisco Bay. 17 00:01:22,667 --> 00:01:27,400 This is a bustling bay with lots of industry, lots of naval facilities. 18 00:01:27,467 --> 00:01:30,000 And then you come up and you see this huge vision before you. 19 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 And then you come up and you see this huge vision before you. 20 00:01:32,266 --> 00:01:34,667 And there's no mystery what this is. 21 00:01:34,667 --> 00:01:36,100 It's an aircraft carrier. 22 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,266 [Alexis Pedrick] It's imposing. 23 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:42,367 It's sleek. 24 00:01:42,367 --> 00:01:45,166 It's deadly. 25 00:01:45,166 --> 00:01:51,000 [narrator] Inside, the vessel has everything you'd expect to see on board a U.S. Navy ship. 26 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,567 [Pedrick] Everywhere you turn, 27 00:01:55,567 --> 00:02:00,000 there are more dials, more instruments, more screens. 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:00,967 there are more dials, more instruments, more screens. 29 00:02:00,967 --> 00:02:01,000 [Dr. Katherine Landdeck] And then there are rows and rows of beds for the crew. 30 00:02:05,467 --> 00:02:07,066 There's a kitchen. 31 00:02:07,066 --> 00:02:10,567 There's just everything that you need to survive and function. 32 00:02:10,567 --> 00:02:12,567 It's essentially a floating city. 33 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,367 [narrator] This ship served a vital role 34 00:02:17,367 --> 00:02:20,066 in the 20th century's greatest conflict. 35 00:02:20,066 --> 00:02:25,166 But there are features that reveal it also had another mission. 36 00:02:25,166 --> 00:02:29,166 [Wawro] And that's this airstream trailer parked conspicuously 37 00:02:29,166 --> 00:02:30,000 with a presidential seal on it. 38 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:30,867 with a presidential seal on it. 39 00:02:30,867 --> 00:02:31,000 And that suggests that this aircraft carrier had a very specific purpose 40 00:02:34,767 --> 00:02:36,667 in addition to its wartime role. 41 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,567 [Cappa] Right now, we're in what's called primary flight. 42 00:02:48,567 --> 00:02:50,166 And it's basically the same thing 43 00:02:50,166 --> 00:02:53,200 as air traffic controller at a civilian airport. 44 00:02:53,266 --> 00:02:56,100 The air boss would be running the show up here 45 00:02:56,166 --> 00:02:58,266 directing flight operations down the flight deck. 46 00:02:59,767 --> 00:03:00,000 [narrator] Retired U.S. Naval Officer Ron Cappa 47 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 [narrator] Retired U.S. Naval Officer Ron Cappa 48 00:03:02,867 --> 00:03:07,266 has inspected numerous aircraft carriers over his military career. 49 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:13,467 This one, the USS Hornet, is a true legend. 50 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,867 [Cappa] The Hornet was part of a carrier task group 51 00:03:17,867 --> 00:03:21,100 that was responsible for launching many strikes. 52 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:24,400 The carrier could launch planes about every 30 seconds. 53 00:03:24,467 --> 00:03:27,867 They were the most modern and the biggest of the time. 54 00:03:31,266 --> 00:03:35,166 [Landdeck] Construction begins in August of 1942, 55 00:03:35,166 --> 00:03:38,467 and it's finished in August of 1943. 56 00:03:38,467 --> 00:03:43,300 It took just one year to build this massive aircraft carrier. 57 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:46,066 [narrator] When launched into action 58 00:03:46,066 --> 00:03:48,667 against the Axis powers of World War II, 59 00:03:48,667 --> 00:03:51,166 she was a fearsome beast. 60 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,567 The ship was stocked with some serious air power, 61 00:03:57,567 --> 00:04:00,000 including air groups of fighter, bomber and torpedo squadrons. 62 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 including air groups of fighter, bomber and torpedo squadrons. 63 00:04:04,066 --> 00:04:05,900 [Landdeck] If you look at the USS Hornet, 64 00:04:05,967 --> 00:04:07,467 the history of this ship, 65 00:04:07,467 --> 00:04:10,800 it is intertwined with the history of the American War 66 00:04:10,867 --> 00:04:12,700 in the Pacific and World War II. 67 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,200 [Wawro] The ship fought in multiple campaigns 68 00:04:16,266 --> 00:04:18,967 in New Guinea, in the Philippines, 69 00:04:18,967 --> 00:04:20,867 in Iwo Jima, Saipan. 70 00:04:20,867 --> 00:04:23,000 It had, like, seven battle stars. 71 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,700 [narrator] The Hornet's most famous engagement 72 00:04:27,767 --> 00:04:30,000 was the battle of the Philippine Sea, 73 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:30,166 was the battle of the Philippine Sea, 74 00:04:30,166 --> 00:04:31,000 later dubbed "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot." 75 00:04:36,266 --> 00:04:39,066 [Cappa] The battle of Philippine Sea was quite historic. 76 00:04:39,066 --> 00:04:41,100 The Japanese were looking for the Americans, 77 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:44,200 and they were in the Philippines Sea, around the Mariana Islands. 78 00:04:44,266 --> 00:04:48,767 And the Japanese actually spotted the fleet 79 00:04:48,767 --> 00:04:52,000 before the Americans had discovered the Japanese. 80 00:04:53,867 --> 00:04:57,166 [Wawro] The Japanese launched everything they had from their own carriers, 81 00:04:57,166 --> 00:04:59,667 to try to wipe out the American carrier fleet. 82 00:04:59,667 --> 00:05:00,000 The Hornet was among the ones sent by American admirals in the Pacific to intercept. 83 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 The Hornet was among the ones sent by American admirals in the Pacific to intercept. 84 00:05:04,166 --> 00:05:06,166 And they had this phenomenal shoot-down ratio. 85 00:05:06,166 --> 00:05:08,667 Over 500 Japanese aircraft shot down 86 00:05:08,667 --> 00:05:10,867 with a loss of something like 30 American planes. 87 00:05:12,867 --> 00:05:15,266 [Landdeck] The Japanese fight and fight, 88 00:05:15,266 --> 00:05:17,867 but they get crushed, 89 00:05:17,867 --> 00:05:22,967 and are never able to significantly strike with their carriers again. 90 00:05:24,967 --> 00:05:27,767 [narrator] As the battle in the Pacific theater raged on, 91 00:05:27,767 --> 00:05:30,000 the Hornet continued to deliver knockout blows. 92 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:30,900 the Hornet continued to deliver knockout blows. 93 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,400 [Landdeck] In just 18 months of combat operations, 94 00:05:36,467 --> 00:05:42,600 the crew of the USS Hornet shot down 668 Japanese planes 95 00:05:42,667 --> 00:05:47,800 and sank over a million tons of Japanese ships. 96 00:05:47,867 --> 00:05:52,200 [narrator] At the war's end, the ship was modernized and sent back out to sea 97 00:05:52,266 --> 00:05:56,100 to support the fight against Vietnamese Communists. 98 00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:00,000 Soon it would be called to take part in its greatest operation yet. 99 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:00,900 Soon it would be called to take part in its greatest operation yet. 100 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,000 On July 12th, 1969, 101 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,300 the Hornet slipped her moors at Pearl Harbor, 102 00:06:09,367 --> 00:06:12,767 and embarked on a new mission in the Pacific. 103 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,600 Built for battle, the ship was pressed into the service of science. 104 00:06:19,367 --> 00:06:20,867 [narrator] One week later, 105 00:06:20,867 --> 00:06:25,367 Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. 106 00:06:26,567 --> 00:06:29,300 [Neil Armstrong] That's one small step for man, 107 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,000 one giant leap for mankind. 108 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,667 That looks beautiful to me. 109 00:06:36,667 --> 00:06:40,467 [Landdeck] The Apollo 11 mission was so important and so symbolic. 110 00:06:40,467 --> 00:06:43,667 The idea of landing a man on the moon 111 00:06:43,667 --> 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