[ExcursionGuy84]

Don't forget the Devastator [ironic name] torpedo-bombers from the Hornet, Yorktown and Enterprise which were all-but-one shot down while attempting to attack the Japanese Fleet.

If my knowledge of written history is correct, Only one U.S. survivor lived to give a verbal report of how the Devestators got massacred.

http://www.aviation-history.com/douglas/tbd.html

[jboot]

Those Devastators were another peice of the victory puzzle. They were slaughtered, yes. But they pulled the Jap CAP down below 10,000 feet and left the skies over the carriers clear for the dive bombers.