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...planes from the fourth, so far unsighted, Japanese carrier attacked a U.S. carrier. Said a torpedo-plane pilot who saw U.S. fighters intercept the Japs: "It looked like the sky over there was covered by a curtain of smoke streamers—a curtain of Japanese going down in flames." Only six or seven Jap bombers got close enough to aim their missiles at the carrier; all were shot down by antiaircraft fire...
...badly the U.S. carrier was hit, the Navy did not say. But its planes found and attacked the fourth Japanese carrier that evening and again the next morning (indicating that the U.S. carrier was still afloat and fighting). The U.S. pilots were sure that this Jap carrier, like the three others, never reached port...
...destruction of the Japanese carriers won the Battle of Midway. Battered back on the defensive, the Jap fleet scurried homeward. As in the Coral Sea, no Jap surface ship had come within sight or range of a U.S. surface ship. Long-range Army bombers continued the hammering pursuit for three days...
...proof went on. The Jap took it up sank battleships at Pearl Harbor. Navy men pleaded that they had been surprised. He smeared the Prince of Wales and Repulse when every gun in their anti-aircraft batteries was blazing. By then there were few to argue with Al Williams when he wrote: "What has any battleship done to date, in this war, but sink...
...proof went on. Luckily for her enemies, Japan had her battleship admirals too. At Midway the Jap Fleet poked into the range of land-based aircraft, and for the first time in history, on such a scale, naval power with imposing air support met naked air power. It was the carriers again that took the beating. When the Jap turned back, minus two, and perhaps four, of his floating airdromes, airmen could ask some pertinent questions: What price carriers when aircraft get up (as they will next year) to ranges of 10,000 miles, with bomb loads of 25 tons...