The FReeper Foxhole - Torpedo Squadron 8 Plane Captain Relives ‘Battle of Midway - June 4th, 2007

U.S. Navy ^ | June 4th, 2007 | Specialist 1st Class James E. Foehl, Commander, Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs

[PhilDragoo]

WAVES wash over SBD Dauntless

[colorado tanker]

Thanks, Snippy. A great story of a great battle. I never get tired of reading the Midway story.

I have such admiration for Adm. Nimitz. He took some thin intelligence, put himself in the mind of the enemy commander, made a very gutsy and very right call to throw everything he had at the enemy, and position his forces just right to win.

Then, of course, you have the tremendous stories of heroism and sacrifice, epitomized by Squadron 8 and Cmdr. Waldron. Certainly, one of the Navy's finest hours.

[Fiji Hill]

Shokaku—Happy Crane
Zuikaku—Lucky Crane

[snippy_about_it]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Somewhat related...we did a thread a couple years back here at the Foxhole on “Naming Navy Ships”. What a hoot that was, learning the way decisions were made, changed, remade.

[snippy_about_it]

Happy anniversary!! Good to see you in the Foxhole.

[snippy_about_it]

You know, that guy who does the indexing thread really needs to get back on the ball.

Yeah, whatever happened to him? I guess that girl that was helping is a slacker, too!

[snippy_about_it]

We got a lot of the smoke, everytime the winds blew from the east or north we got hit. You’d swear the fire was across the street. I don’t know how the folks close in managed.

[snippy_about_it]

Hi Jinxy. Hopefully it will continue to be retold long after they and we are gone.

[snippy_about_it]

(((HUGS)))

[snippy_about_it]

Nice shot. Great pic, thanks alfa6.

[snippy_about_it]

Hey, we don’t care when you fall in just fall in. I posted late last night, eastern time but my window of opportunity for posting keeps interfering with work or sleep so it gets tough. :-)

Good to see you.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Phil. We could use some of these slogan posters for the new invasion, this one from our south.

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Hi ya sweetie. Thanks for stopping by. I like your tagline.

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big ole bttt

WHAT?!!!

Oh, nevermind. For a minute there.....

[snippy_about_it]

Yes, this was smartly done. With all the reading Sam and I do of battles and individual fights we are always remarking how one person, one move, wrong or right can change so much.

[Professional Engineer]

LOL

[snippy_about_it]

;-)

[PAR35]

I switched out computers and I need to hunt down the files so I can update them. (For that matter, I need to hunt down the software I was using).

[snippy_about_it]

I suppose you could always just copy the source code from the threads they are on now. I had no idea you were using software. Handy!

[PAR35]

I think I ended up using FrontPage. I know I tried a couple of other programs first.