war diaries... on board that the Ex.O. was to duty bound carry off-board and keep safe for history... they say that a Vindicator and a B-26 (actually) just barely scored glancing hits on 2 Carriers (CV's) early on during the Midway spawned raids. not much damage... one one blew up a few cabins and the other one was even less effective and hit a corner of the flight deck. Though... who; knew?!? They really need to find any survivors or next of kin and pin a Medal on them. 1,ooo b.street p.s. +one for you sense of timing, too...

Speaking specifically about the air strikes, and the torpedo squadrons bringing the Zeros down to the surface allowing the dive bombers a clear path. The other lucky thing was the Japanese admiral who was indecisive, and decided to take his planes below deck to change ordinance. That meant when the dive bombers attacked, there was a lot of ordnance out in the open on their hanger decks. That was the turning point of the Pacific campaign. Japan couldn't replace all of those experienced pilots, not to mention they couldn't build replacement aircraft carriers and aircraft to match our production. Frankly no one could match our factory production during WWII.

over 100 when it ended. I saw that on some documentary, but I watch so many (and over and over) I couldn't tell you which one. But I could hardly believe my ears. Incredible. No way anyone would beat us in the long haul.

...they would attack next, and they guessed where they would position themselves when they attacked. We positioned our forces where they didn't expect.

probably Japanese engineers of the time) knew they could not beat the USA when they saw the welding of damaged American equipment. The welding was 'sloppy' but effective...meaning it was produced much faster than they were producing....fascinating

...referenced that quote, but it was clearly AI-generated and attributed the quote to a fictitious German officer, so I'm not sure if that is actually a true story.