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To: Retain Mike; All
Thanks for posting. I’d like to recommend a book which I think is out of print. I stumbled across a copy at a church rummage sale a few years ago and couldn't’t pass it up. “The United States Navy in World War II” by SE Smith.
https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Navy-World-War/dp/B00DE0LHCI
It a compilation of first hand accounts including a couple accounts by the dive bombers at Midway. My favorite from ‘‘this section is by Lt. Clarence E Dickinson titled “The Target Was Utterly Satisfying”. He tells about how his squadron found the carriers without any fighters at altitude and dove on them. He used the big red disk as his target and saw dozens of fighters on deck and taking off. Great read.

I need to get out and see the new movie. My dad was a torpedo man on the Yorktown, his job was to arm and mount the torpedo to the plane. He spent the rest of the war on a highly decorated Destroyer which was sent to Guadalcanal several months after Midway.

62 posted on 12/01/2019 8:17:51 PM PST by W650
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To: W650

I do have a copy of that book. Thanks.


64 posted on 12/01/2019 8:56:48 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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