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To: AppyPappy

Losing several hundred pilots at Midway didn’t do them any favors, either.


42 posted on 01/27/2016 7:21:09 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Losing several hundred pilots at Midway didn't do them any favors, either.

I used to think that but then I read a historian say the Japs search and rescue (SAR) effort to collect ditch pilots after midway was pretty successful. I do not know what to think now.

44 posted on 01/27/2016 7:24:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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