re: Six minutes over the Japanese fleet

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Midway?

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Yep. Was the big turning point in the war. One group from that day I'd like to recognize is the brave men of VT-8. It was their suicidal and sadly, ineffective low level torpedo runs in hopelessly obsolete Dauntless Devestator torpedo bombers that drew the Japanese CAP down to sea level and cleared the way for the Dauntless diver bombers to do their job to such devastating effect.



Only one man in this picture survived that attack. And he had to be plucked out of the water. He actually got to watch the Jap carriers get obliterated while bobbing in the water not far away.