The Battle of Midway

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This paper explains that, on June 4th, 1942, early in the morning, an American Catalina aircraft was patrolling the open Pacific sky when something startling was seen--- two Japanese carriers, two battleships, bearing 320 degrees, distant 180 miles, course 130 degrees, speed 25 knots: The Battle of Midway was to begin. The author explains that a patrol of six Marine F4F Wildcat fighters from Midway ran head first into one-hundred and eight Japanese bombers and Zeros in the direction of Midway and nothing could stop them. The paper relates that the American forces retaliated and, in only the time span of one day, they sank four out of six Japanese carriers used against Pearl Harbor; Japan lost over 300 planes and nearly 3000 men.

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"The fourth Japanese carrier, Hiryu, made a close escape and vowed to have revenge on the Yorktown. Hiryu launched an attack against the Yorktown. One bomb went through the side of the ship, lodged itself in the stack, and exploded. The single bomb caused 5 boilers to go out, which slowed the ship down tremendously. Two torpedo explosions ripped a huge hole in the portside of Yorktown and made the damage irreversible, the order to abandon ship came at 2:55 P.M. The Americans were all but dead yet, however."

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