[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Adding, maybe pinging too.

Their defeat at Midway was so bad that the Japanese gov't didn't tell the full story to the Japanese people until 1955, nearly ten years after the end of the war. For us, it was a near-run thing, and brilliantly defended, but at great cost. Had the Japanese been able to attack with two more carriers (that was the original plan), probably would have gone the other way, and delayed victory in the Pacific.

If memory serves a single US flyer at another battle the previous month, through his sacrifice, actually helped win both battles by descending into AAA fire and dropping his load right down the elevator shaft, blowing all the planes stored below -- one less carrier for the Midway operation.

I can't turn up info on it, can't structure the search right, hope someone knows. Good reason to ping the list, eh? Ah, here it is -- loads slow, it's a FReeper Foxhole from 2003.

[SunkenCiv]

You must have been thinking of this one. :^)