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Lost Ships of WW2

War & PoliticsDocumentaryAction & Adventure

Rob Kraft and his team aboard the research vessel Petrel are in search of the most iconic ships of WW2. Using some of the world's most high-tech equipment, their spectacular discoveries can now be seen for the first time in 80 years.

May 29, 20221 seasons8 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Bret Baier

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Seasons

Season 1

8 episodes

Premiered May 29, 2022

Episodes

1–6 of 8

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Ep 1

USS Indianapolis: Abandoned at Sea

May 29, 2022

49m

Just weeks before WW2 ended, the USS Indianapolis violently sank, and 900 sailors were stranded at sea with no rescue in sight. For five days, they fought off exposure and shark attacks in the worst disaster at sea in U.S. naval history.

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Ep 2

USS Ward: America's First Shot

May 29, 2022

43m

Undersea explorers aboard the research vessel Petrel detect a wreck off the coast of the Philippines that fits the profile of an American destroyer. Could it be the wreck of the USS Ward, the ship that fired America's first shot of WW2 at Pearl Harbor?

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Ep 3

Lady Lex: Queen of the Coral Sea

May 29, 2022

45m

The USS Lexington birthed naval aviation and was victorious in the first carrier-to-carrier battle during WWII. Hours later, it erupted in flames due to enemy fire. Now, after 80 years, the Petrel hopes to spot the wreck and the storied planes that went down with her.

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Ep 4

USS Hornet: America Strikes Back

May 29, 2022

48m

The Petrel team searches for the American aircraft carrier USS Hornet. The Doolittle Raid was launched off her deck to avenge Pearl Harbor. But six months later, the ship's life was cut short when the Hornet sailed into a hornet's nest of Japanese ships.

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Ep 5

USS Juneau: Brothers in Arms

May 29, 2022

47m

What happened aboard the USS Juneau would inspire the film "Saving Private Ryan." Five brothers were lost, but not all perished when the ship went down. At least one brother was among scores of men stranded at sea for eight horrifying days.

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Ep 6

Iron Bottom Sound: Graveyard of the Pacific

May 29, 2022

45m

In one night, over one thousand Allied sailors died when four cruisers went down in flames. They rest in a graveyard littered with so many ships that it has become known as "Iron Bottom Sound." Petrel undertakes a needle-in-a-haystack search to find all four ships.

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