[jmacusa]

God Bless him. Flying those obsolete Douglass Devastators those guys really didn’t stand a chance against the Zero.

[skeeter]

The navy lost half of the Devastators in their inventory that day. The remainder went into immediate retirement the next, thank goodness. Today there are none extant.

BTW there are a number of these aircraft that have been discovered submerged but within range of salvage that the navy is refusing to allow to be recovered. It'd be a tragedy to our posterity if they were allowed to rust away.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Unfortunately the topedo squadrons were the bait and they knew that.Thats why the dive bombers arrived later as we knew the combat air patrol would be down on the deck attacking the topedo bombers.Can you just imagine what every jap on those carriers knew was about to happen when the dive bombers pushed over from 10,000 ft? They knew right then they were screwed bigtime.