[Retain Mike]

This narrative is probably not ready for prime time. Yet it is the 70th anniversary of the battle, and the other half-dozen posts I have seen do not focus on Chester Nimitz’s leadership or those so few, so determined flyers.

[Retain Mike]

I am sorry I could not get my table to post correctly. The bottom line was 86 Japanese against 27 U.S. Navy ships.

[M1903A1]

“500 mph Zero fighters”

< shakes head>

More like 330....

[Snickering Hound]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSm055a0394

B-26 former crews remember Midway.

That bombers stall speed was about the same as the maximum speed you could drop their mark 13 torpedoes.

[DManA]

Would have been impossible if not for the code breakers. We owe SO MUCH to those guys.

[ngat]

I did like that you gave time frames of the action (3hrs 23 min. to sink 3 carriers) and the time of the subsequent afternoon attack that got Hiryu.

That perspective is sometimes forgotten in the longer, more detailed, book decsriptions of the battle.

[agere_contra]

Excellent post: retailing parts of the Midway battle I never knew - the high loss rate among US pilots.

[oyez]

Ping.

[fortheDeclaration]

Thank you for posting!

[fortheDeclaration]

Thanks for posting.

[xone]

for 25 Marine Brewster Buffalos and Hellcat fighters

No Hellcats...yet. Wildcats.

[Born to Conserve]

“...now mostly at the bottom of Pearl Harbor...”

No.

http://www.pearlharbor.org/ships-and-aircraft.asp