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...noon, bombers and torpedo-planes from U.S. carriers went into battle. Said a naval flyer: "Ten minutes later the three carriers were blazing from stem to stern." At about the same time, the Army bombers also resumed the attack, after refueling on Midway's undamaged airfield...
...Japanese forces only 125 miles west of Midway. The Japs were then hit with everything Midway could throw at them. Marine Corps dive-bombers struck the leading cruisers and destroyers. Colonel Sweeney's heavy bombers went for the carriers, left one blazing. Four converted bombers, the first Army torpedo-planes ever recorded in action, hit the other carriers. Cried one of the pilots, "Boy, if Mother could see me now! Wow!" Two of the four went down after they had fired their torpedoes; the others limped home to Midway. The Navy had some land-based bombers and torpedo-planes...
...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...
...hours later, Japanese torpedo-planes attacked the same carrier. Fighters on the flight deck, just in to refuel, took off with nearly empty tanks, flew through their own fire, beat off the attackers...
Proof. The proof switched to the Navy: to Taranto, where British pilots in antique planes proved that the aircraft could sink men-of-war; to the battle against the Bismarck, where they proved that the aerial torpedo could cripple the finest best-protected battleship afloat...