NOAA is asking for help: Can you identify this car found inside the remains of the USS Yorktown, the famed carrier that was sunk at the Battle of Midway.
A car? Yes, a passenger automobile. Not a Jeep.
According to Popular Science, the discovery was made on April 19 during a dive by a remotely operated vehicle. The car …
I'm no expert, but is there a chance that it could be a Type 95 "acquired" from the Japanese?
I think the wheel portion of the "spare tire" that is visible is of a different form than the Type 91 wheel. I am trying to decide if the rear of the car is in the foreground or the background. I think I see the steering wheel in the background which would make it a left had drive car but the "panel" sitting just aft of the spare looks like it could be a "Jeep type" windshield assembly. Identity is inconclusive to me at the moment.
I do remember a short blurb in a "Hot Rod"?, magazine from the early '60's that showed some pics of a late '40's? sedan being used to test the steam catapault system on a carrier but don't know if that was SOP or not. :)
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Colin Wood said:I'm no expert, but is there a chance that it could be a Type 95 "acquired" from the Japanese?
Unlikely, if only because we hadn't really been in land battles with the Japanese yet. Certainly not to the point of having liberated one of their vehicles and somehow getting it onboard an aircraft carrier.
This article says the vehicle is almost certainly a 1941-42 Ford Super Deluxe Woody Wagon. The wood is largely eaten away and we see what's left.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/ford-woody-wwii-aircraft-carrier-yorktown/
In reply to Msterbee :
Ah. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
This pis below helps.
NGL, kinda want a type 95 now though.
Several pundits have ID'd it as a 1941 Ford woody station wagon. They were apparently a common staff car used for the brass.
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