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...Beach. After Midway the Navy brought Jimmy Thach home, set him down to a job of rewriting fighter tactics, teaching gunnery and tactics at Jacksonville, planning a dozen training films. Good-natured Jimmy Thach went at it earnestly, flying, shooting, lecturing and jotting down notes in his little black book (where once he listed his squadron in the order he thought they would be killed, found his predictions, based on tactical skill, generally correct...
...Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were new names to raise a challenge to the old, Attu was such a name, and Corregidor, and Guadalcanal, Midway and Buna. There were others and there would be more. They too would be long remembered...
Three Victims. One of her biggest successes came in the desperate Battle of Midway when her dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters roared in with four separate attacks on the big Jap invasion fleet. Eight bombs smashed into the enemy carrier Kaga, three more on the Akagi; additional hits in a later attack, sent both to the bottom. On the same day 17 dive-bombers helped spike the carrier Soryu with six hits and plumped two more on a battleship; the Soryu burned cheerily and slipped beneath the surface with the polite hissing noise characteristic of Japanese etiquette...
...After the battle of Midway, the Army Air Forces managed to give the public the impression that land-based aircraft had played the biggest role in routing the Jap task forces. Actually it was Navy carrier-based craft that did the most damage to the enemy...
...fateful days of early June 1942, the men of Patwing Four and their Army opposite numbers were on the short side of one of the most successful double gambles in military history. The Jap was casting a two-pronged offensive at Alaska and at Midway. Admiral Ernest Joseph King (COMINCH) chose to throw his biggest defensive punch toward Midway, and his carrier-based airmen spearheaded the victory in one of the decisive battles of history. In the Aleutians, the "PBY Interceptor Command" and a handful of flyers had to fight with what was on hand...