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To: Retain Mike

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


8 posted on 06/06/2012 9:47:36 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

Midway was the last time the obsolete TBD Devastator torpedo bombers saw action. The remaining ones were quickly withdrawn and used for training or simply scrapped.

The only “survivors” today are a handful of wrecks that have been located on the ocean floor.


9 posted on 06/06/2012 9:50:06 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: agere_contra

I have read that the Japanese were astonished when several of the pilots of crashing planes deliberately crashed into carriers. Way before they thought of the kamikaze strategy.


11 posted on 06/06/2012 10:02:55 AM PDT by DManA
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To: agere_contra

I have read that the Japanese were astonished when several of the pilots of crashing planes deliberately crashed into carriers. Way before they thought of the kamikaze strategy.


12 posted on 06/06/2012 10:03:04 AM PDT by DManA
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