[Joe 6-pack]

When my dad was a cop, one of the sergeants on the force was a grizzled, chisel-faced giant of a man who had served as a rear gunner on a Dauntless during the war. He didn't get to the fleet until after Midway, but was in many campaigns after that.

He loved that plane and spoke highly of it.

Years later after I left home, my folks told me he had carried the national colors in a Memorial Day Parade for the VFW, sat down after finishing the parade route, and died of a heart attack.

[LibWhacker]

Carried the colors ‘til he died... Heroes to the end.

[DarrellZero]

My nine year-old is obsessed with Midway and WWII carrier warfare. He loves Battle 360 on the History Channel and the Midway movie. He’s getting a Lego USS Enterprise for Christmas.

He thinks Star Wars is a boring joke. Dad is pleased.

[Ikemeister]

Our Bombing and Scouting squadrons equipped with the Dauntless Dive Bombers flown by some very brave men carried the day at Midway. Not to be overlooked, though, were the attacks by our obsolete and slow TBD Devastator torpedo bomber squadrons. Only four TBD’s survived the day, and none scored a hit on a Japanese ship, but they drew the Japanese fighter cover down to the deck, allowing the SBD’s to dive on the Japanese carriers without worrying about Zeros on their tail. A little known fact is that not a single TBD Devastator was lost in action before Midway, and they had a pretty good hit rate on Japanese ships, even with the defective torpedos they carried.