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

At 00:00:01,867, Character said: [narrator] An American machine
of war given a second life.

2
At 00:00:06,667, Character said: Landing people on the moon
was an epic defining moment,

3
At 00:00:10,467, Character said: but it wasn't the end
of the mission.

4
At 00:00:15,567, Character said: [narrator] An eerie shrine
that offered the promise
of immortality.

5
At 00:00:20,100, Character said: Children would burst
into tears

6
At 00:00:22,967, Character said: at the sight of the departed
father of their country.

7
At 00:00:29,100, Character said: [narrator] And a labor of love
born from the ashes of trauma.

8
At 00:00:30,000, Character said: [narrator] And a labor of love
born from the ashes of trauma.

9
At 00:00:34,367, Character said: This was architecture
intended to look forward
to a new kind of future.

10
At 00:00:45,166, Character said: [narrator] Decaying relics...

11
At 00:00:48,200, Character said: Ruins of lost worlds...

12
At 00:00:51,867, Character said: Sites haunted by the past...

13
At 00:00:55,667, Character said: Their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

14
At 00:01:08,166, Character said: In Alameda County, California,

15
At 00:01:10,567, Character said: lies a behemoth with a story
that is out of this world.

16
At 00:01:20,600, Character said: [Prof. Geoff Wawro] Obviously,
we're in San Francisco Bay.

17
At 00:01:22,667, Character said: This is a bustling bay
with lots of industry,
lots of naval facilities.

18
At 00:01:27,467, Character said: And then you come up
and you see this huge
vision before you.

19
At 00:01:30,000, Character said: And then you come up
and you see this huge
vision before you.

20
At 00:01:32,266, Character said: And there's no mystery
what this is.

21
At 00:01:34,667, Character said: It's an aircraft carrier.

22
At 00:01:38,800, Character said: [Alexis Pedrick]
It's imposing.

23
At 00:01:40,900, Character said: It's sleek.

24
At 00:01:42,367, Character said: It's deadly.

25
At 00:01:45,166, Character said: [narrator] Inside, the vessel
has everything you'd expect to
see on board a U.S. Navy ship.

26
At 00:01:54,200, Character said: [Pedrick] Everywhere you turn,

27
At 00:01:55,567, Character said: there are more dials,
more instruments,
more screens.

28
At 00:02:00,000, Character said: there are more dials,
more instruments,
more screens.

29
At 00:02:00,967, Character said: [Dr. Katherine Landdeck]
And then there are rows
and rows of beds for the crew.

30
At 00:02:05,467, Character said: There's a kitchen.

31
At 00:02:07,066, Character said: There's just everything
that you need to survive
and function.

32
At 00:02:10,567, Character said: It's essentially
a floating city.

33
At 00:02:14,700, Character said: [narrator] This ship served
a vital role

34
At 00:02:17,367, Character said: in the 20th century's
greatest conflict.

35
At 00:02:20,066, Character said: But there are features
that reveal it also had
another mission.

36
At 00:02:25,166, Character said: [Wawro] And that's this
airstream trailer
parked conspicuously

37
At 00:02:29,166, Character said: with a presidential seal
on it.

38
At 00:02:30,000, Character said: with a presidential seal
on it.

39
At 00:02:30,867, Character said: And that suggests that
this aircraft carrier had
a very specific purpose

40
At 00:02:34,767, Character said: in addition
to its wartime role.

41
At 00:02:46,200, Character said: [Cappa] Right now, we're in
what's called primary flight.

42
At 00:02:48,567, Character said: And it's basically
the same thing

43
At 00:02:50,166, Character said: as air traffic controller
at a civilian airport.

44
At 00:02:53,266, Character said: The air boss would be running
the show up here

45
At 00:02:56,166, Character said: directing flight operations
down the flight deck.

46
At 00:02:59,767, Character said: [narrator] Retired U.S.
Naval Officer Ron Cappa

47
At 00:03:00,000, Character said: [narrator] Retired U.S.
Naval Officer Ron Cappa

48
At 00:03:02,867, Character said: has inspected numerous
aircraft carriers
over his military career.

49
At 00:03:09,100, Character said: This one, the USS Hornet,
is a true legend.

50
At 00:03:15,000, Character said: [Cappa] The Hornet was part
of a carrier
task group

51
At 00:03:17,867, Character said: that was responsible
for launching many strikes.

52
At 00:03:21,100, Character said: The carrier could launch
planes about every 30 seconds.

53
At 00:03:24,467, Character said: They were the most modern
and the biggest of the time.

54
At 00:03:31,266, Character said: [Landdeck] Construction begins
in August of 1942,

55
At 00:03:35,166, Character said: and it's finished
in August of 1943.

56
At 00:03:38,467, Character said: It took just one year to build
this massive aircraft carrier.

57
At 00:03:44,500, Character said: [narrator] When launched
into action

58
At 00:03:46,066, Character said: against the Axis powers
of World War II,

59
At 00:03:48,667, Character said: she was a fearsome beast.

60
At 00:03:53,600, Character said: The ship was stocked with some
serious air power,

61
At 00:03:57,567, Character said: including air groups
of fighter, bomber
and torpedo squadrons.

62
At 00:04:00,000, Character said: including air groups
of fighter, bomber
and torpedo squadrons.

63
At 00:04:04,066, Character said: [Landdeck] If you look at
the USS Hornet,

64
At 00:04:05,967, Character said: the history of this ship,

65
At 00:04:07,467, Character said: it is intertwined
with the history
of the American War

66
At 00:04:10,867, Character said: in the Pacific
and World War II.

67
At 00:04:14,000, Character said: [Wawro] The ship fought in
multiple campaigns

68
At 00:04:16,266, Character said: in New Guinea,
in the Philippines,

69
At 00:04:18,967, Character said: in Iwo Jima, Saipan.

70
At 00:04:20,867, Character said: It had, like,
seven battle stars.

71
At 00:04:25,400, Character said: [narrator] The Hornet's most
famous engagement

72
At 00:04:27,767, Character said: was the battle
of the Philippine Sea,

73
At 00:04:30,000, Character said: was the battle
of the Philippine Sea,

74
At 00:04:30,166, Character said: later dubbed
"The Great Marianas
Turkey Shoot."

75
At 00:04:36,266, Character said: [Cappa] The battle
of Philippine Sea
was quite historic.

76
At 00:04:39,066, Character said: The Japanese were looking
for the Americans,

77
At 00:04:41,100, Character said: and they were in
the Philippines Sea,
around the Mariana Islands.

78
At 00:04:44,266, Character said: And the Japanese
actually spotted the fleet

79
At 00:04:48,767, Character said: before the Americans had
discovered the Japanese.

80
At 00:04:53,867, Character said: [Wawro] The Japanese launched
everything they had
from their own carriers,

81
At 00:04:57,166, Character said: to try to wipe out
the American carrier fleet.

82
At 00:04:59,667, Character said: The Hornet was among the ones
sent by American admirals
in the Pacific to intercept.

83
At 00:05:00,000, Character said: The Hornet was among the ones
sent by American admirals
in the Pacific to intercept.

84
At 00:05:04,166, Character said: And they had this
phenomenal shoot-down ratio.

85
At 00:05:06,166, Character said: Over 500 Japanese
aircraft shot down

86
At 00:05:08,667, Character said: with a loss of something
like 30 American planes.

87
At 00:05:12,867, Character said: [Landdeck] The Japanese
fight and fight,

88
At 00:05:15,266, Character said: but they get crushed,

89
At 00:05:17,867, Character said: and are never able
to significantly strike
with their carriers again.

90
At 00:05:24,967, Character said: [narrator] As the battle
in the Pacific theater
raged on,

91
At 00:05:27,767, Character said: the Hornet continued
to deliver knockout blows.

92
At 00:05:30,000, Character said: the Hornet continued
to deliver knockout blows.

93
At 00:05:33,200, Character said: [Landdeck] In just 18 months
of combat operations,

94
At 00:05:36,467, Character said: the crew of the USS Hornet
shot down 668 Japanese planes

95
At 00:05:42,667, Character said: and sank over a million
tons of Japanese ships.

96
At 00:05:47,867, Character said: [narrator] At the war's end,
the ship was modernized
and sent back out to sea

97
At 00:05:52,266, Character said: to support the fight against
Vietnamese Communists.

98
At 00:05:56,100, Character said: Soon it would be
called to take part
in its greatest operation yet.

99
At 00:06:00,000, Character said: Soon it would be
called to take part
in its greatest operation yet.

100
At 00:06:02,800, Character said: On July 12th, 1969,

101
At 00:06:06,000, Character said: the Hornet slipped her moors
at Pearl Harbor,

102
At 00:06:09,367, Character said: and embarked on a new
mission in the Pacific.

103
At 00:06:14,200, Character said: Built for battle,
the ship was pressed into
the service of science.

104
At 00:06:19,367, Character said: [narrator] One week later,

105
At 00:06:20,867, Character said: Neil Armstrong became
the first man to walk
on the moon.

106
At 00:06:26,567, Character said: [Neil Armstrong] That's one
small step for man,

107
At 00:06:31,600, Character said: one giant leap for mankind.

108
At 00:06:35,000, Character said: That looks beautiful to me.

109
At 00:06:36,667, Character said: [Landdeck] The Apollo 11
mission was so important
and so symbolic.

110
At 00:06:40,467, Character said: The idea of landing
a man on the moon

111
At 00:06:43,667, Character said: was something...