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

00:00:01,867 --> 00:00:06,[narrator] An American machine
of war given a second life.

00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,Landing people on the moon
was an epic defining moment,

00:00:10,467 --> 00:00:12,but it wasn't the end
of the mission.

00:00:15,567 --> 00:00:20,[narrator] An eerie shrine
that offered the promise
of immortality.

00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:22,Children would burst
into tears

00:00:22,967 --> 00:00:26,at the sight of the departed
father of their country.

00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:30,[narrator] And a labor of love
born from the ashes of trauma.

00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,[narrator] And a labor of love
born from the ashes of trauma.

00:00:34,367 --> 00:00:39,This was architecture
intended to look forward
to a new kind of future.

00:00:45,166 --> 00:00:46,[narrator] Decaying relics...

00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,Ruins of lost worlds...

00:00:51,867 --> 00:00:54,Sites haunted by the past...

00:00:55,667 --> 00:00:58,Their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

00:01:08,166 --> 00:01:10,In Alameda County, California,

00:01:10,567 --> 00:01:15,lies a behemoth with a story
that is out of this world.

00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,[Prof. Geoff Wawro] Obviously,
we're in San Francisco Bay.

00:01:22,667 --> 00:01:27,This is a bustling bay
with lots of industry,
lots of naval facilities.

00:01:27,467 --> 00:01:30,And then you come up
and you see this huge
vision before you.

00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,And then you come up
and you see this huge
vision before you.

00:01:32,266 --> 00:01:34,And there's no mystery
what this is.

00:01:34,667 --> 00:01:36,It's an aircraft carrier.

00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,[Alexis Pedrick]
It's imposing.

00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:42,It's sleek.

00:01:42,367 --> 00:01:45,It's deadly.

00:01:45,166 --> 00:01:51,[narrator] Inside, the vessel
has everything you'd expect to
see on board a U.S. Navy ship.

00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,[Pedrick] Everywhere you turn,

00:01:55,567 --> 00:02:00,there are more dials,
more instruments,
more screens.

00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:00,there are more dials,
more instruments,
more screens.

00:02:00,967 --> 00:02:01,[Dr. Katherine Landdeck]
And then there are rows
and rows of beds for the crew.

00:02:05,467 --> 00:02:07,There's a kitchen.

00:02:07,066 --> 00:02:10,There's just everything
that you need to survive
and function.

00:02:10,567 --> 00:02:12,It's essentially
a floating city.

00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,[narrator] This ship served
a vital role

00:02:17,367 --> 00:02:20,in the 20th century's
greatest conflict.

00:02:20,066 --> 00:02:25,But there are features
that reveal it also had
another mission.

00:02:25,166 --> 00:02:29,[Wawro] And that's this
airstream trailer
parked conspicuously

00:02:29,166 --> 00:02:30,with a presidential seal
on it.

00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:30,with a presidential seal
on it.

00:02:30,867 --> 00:02:31,And that suggests that
this aircraft carrier had
a very specific purpose

00:02:34,767 --> 00:02:36,in addition
to its wartime role.

00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,[Cappa] Right now, we're in
what's called primary flight.

00:02:48,567 --> 00:02:50,And it's basically
the same thing

00:02:50,166 --> 00:02:53,as air traffic controller
at a civilian airport.

00:02:53,266 --> 00:02:56,The air boss would be running
the show up here

00:02:56,166 --> 00:02:58,directing flight operations
down the flight deck.

00:02:59,767 --> 00:03:00,[narrator] Retired U.S.
Naval Officer Ron Cappa

00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,[narrator] Retired U.S.
Naval Officer Ron Cappa

00:03:02,867 --> 00:03:07,has inspected numerous
aircraft carriers
over his military career.

00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:13,This one, the USS Hornet,
is a true legend.

00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,[Cappa] The Hornet was part
of a carrier
task group

00:03:17,867 --> 00:03:21,that was responsible
for launching many strikes.

00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:24,The carrier could launch
planes about every 30 seconds.

00:03:24,467 --> 00:03:27,They were the most modern
and the biggest of the time.

00:03:31,266 --> 00:03:35,[Landdeck] Construction begins
in August of 1942,

00:03:35,166 --> 00:03:38,and it's finished
in August of 1943.

00:03:38,467 --> 00:03:43,It took just one year to build
this massive aircraft carrier.

00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:46,[narrator] When launched
into action

00:03:46,066 --> 00:03:48,against the Axis powers
of World War II,

00:03:48,667 --> 00:03:51,she was a fearsome beast.

00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,The ship was stocked with some
serious air power,

00:03:57,567 --> 00:04:00,including air groups
of fighter, bomber
and torpedo squadrons.

00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,including air groups
of fighter, bomber
and torpedo squadrons.

00:04:04,066 --> 00:04:05,[Landdeck] If you look at
the USS Hornet,

00:04:05,967 --> 00:04:07,the history of this ship,

00:04:07,467 --> 00:04:10,it is intertwined
with the history
of the American War

00:04:10,867 --> 00:04:12,in the Pacific
and World War II.

00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,[Wawro] The ship fought in
multiple campaigns

00:04:16,266 --> 00:04:18,in New Guinea,
in the Philippines,

00:04:18,967 --> 00:04:20,in Iwo Jima, Saipan.

00:04:20,867 --> 00:04:23,It had, like,
seven battle stars.

00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,[narrator] The Hornet's most
famous engagement

00:04:27,767 --> 00:04:30,was the battle
of the Philippine Sea,

00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:30,was the battle
of the Philippine Sea,

00:04:30,166 --> 00:04:31,later dubbed
"The Great Marianas
Turkey Shoot."

00:04:36,266 --> 00:04:39,[Cappa] The battle
of Philippine Sea
was quite historic.

00:04:39,066 --> 00:04:41,The Japanese were looking
for the Americans,

00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:44,and they were in
the Philippines Sea,
around the Mariana Islands.

00:04:44,266 --> 00:04:48,And the Japanese
actually spotted the fleet

00:04:48,767 --> 00:04:52,before the Americans had
discovered the Japanese.

00:04:53,867 --> 00:04:57,[Wawro] The Japanese launched
everything they had
from their own carriers,

00:04:57,166 --> 00:04:59,to try to wipe out
the American carrier fleet.

00:04:59,667 --> 00:05:00,The Hornet was among the ones
sent by American admirals
in the Pacific to intercept.

00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,The Hornet was among the ones
sent by American admirals
in the Pacific to intercept.

00:05:04,166 --> 00:05:06,And they had this
phenomenal shoot-down ratio.

00:05:06,166 --> 00:05:08,Over 500 Japanese
aircraft shot down

00:05:08,667 --> 00:05:10,with a loss of something
like 30 American planes.

00:05:12,867 --> 00:05:15,[Landdeck] The Japanese
fight and fight,

00:05:15,266 --> 00:05:17,but they get crushed,

00:05:17,867 --> 00:05:22,and are never able
to significantly strike
with their carriers again.

00:05:24,967 --> 00:05:27,[narrator] As the battle
in the Pacific theater
raged on,

00:05:27,767 --> 00:05:30,the Hornet continued
to deliver knockout blows.

00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:30,the Hornet continued
to deliver knockout blows.

00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,[Landdeck] In just 18 months
of combat operations,

00:05:36,467 --> 00:05:42,the crew of the USS Hornet
shot down 668 Japanese planes

00:05:42,667 --> 00:05:47,and sank over a million
tons of Japanese ships.

00:05:47,867 --> 00:05:52,[narrator] At the war's end,
the ship was modernized
and sent back out to sea

00:05:52,266 --> 00:05:56,to support the fight against
Vietnamese Communists.

00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:00,Soon it would be
called to take part
in its greatest operation yet.

00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:00,Soon it would be
called to take part
in its greatest operation yet.

00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,On July 12th, 1969,

00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,the Hornet slipped her moors
at Pearl Harbor,

00:06:09,367 --> 00:06:12,and embarked on a new
mission in the Pacific.

00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,Built for battle,
the ship was pressed into
the service of science.

00:06:19,367 --> 00:06:20,[narrator] One week later,

00:06:20,867 --> 00:06:25,Neil Armstrong became
the first man to walk
on the moon.

00:06:26,567 --> 00:06:29,[Neil Armstrong] That's one
small step for man,

00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,one giant leap for mankind.

00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,That looks beautiful to me.

00:06:36,667 --> 00:06:40,[Landdeck] The Apollo 11
mission was so important
and so symbolic.

00:06:40,467 --> 00:06:43,The idea of landing
a man on the moon

00:06:43,667 --> 00:06:47,was something...