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...attack on Pantelleria was a valuable lesson in modern military tactics. The conclusive effect of air bombardment plus sea blockade was proved. Further proof came when other tinier and also isolated islands fell. Bomb-shaken Lampedusa gave up to a startled R.A.F. flight-sergeant, Sidney Cohen, when his torpedo plane made an emergency landing. Linosa Avith 140 troops surrendered when the British destroyer Nubian appeared. Lampione soon joined the parade...
...Four-Plane Division. Flatley's progression from this was to a division of six planes; Thach argued for four. Mid way settled the argument, in Thach's favor. Escorting a torpedo squadron, Jim my Thach led a. six-plane division from the Yorktown. More than 20 Zeros swarmed down, nailed two of his six, but the other four, flying in the unbroken formation that modern battle demands, picked off three Zeros and fought through. (Fighting Three's record in that battle: 70 Jap "probables" against seven lost.) That day, for the first time, Fighting Three proved another...
...Scored eleven sure torpedo hits, plus one probable...
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...
...Halsey had to order her out to meet an enemy thrust before she was entirely restored; Navy "Seabees" rode along from the base and were still hard at work patching when she started sending her planes into action. In the final round of the Solomons battle last November, the torpedo bombers caught a Kongo-class battleship, slapped it with six tin fish and left it dead in the water...