There is an extended cut of the Yorktown exploration, and...
...there's still a plane aboard. Someone called it out but others said "nah, that can't be"... well, I took a screenshot at 15:40 and enhanced it in Photoshop.
It appears to be a folded TBD wing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFTUpnItt4AIt's also possible it was one of the spare outboard TBD wings that was in the rafters, but I know BuNo 0333 was still aboard on the morning of 7 June, because the salvage crews were trying to jettison it (there's a well known photo of that). I don't know if they ever got it off the ship, though. Look just right of center in this enhanced screenshot:
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You can see the large prewar style insignia.
Y'all are gonna have to excuse me for getting a tad bit emotional/excited about this... that ship means a lot to our family, as my grandfather helped lay her decks as an apprentice at Newport News Shipbuilding.
Lynn