[ARC5] A.R.C. engineer visit to COMAIRPAC, Pearl Harbor Dec 1942

[Jay Coward]

The botched Midway battle that turned into a great victory by chance and by (my view) the Grace of The Almighty.Jay KE6PPF  -----Original Message-----
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Subject: [ARC5] A.R.C. engineer visit to COMAIRPAC, Pearl Harbor Dec 1942

 Interesting document! It brings to mind a book I recommend to everyone,"The Unknown Battle of Midway.  It describes what really happened in thatbattle. The F4F Wildcats from the USS Hornet thatescorted the carrier's SBD dive bombers turned back when their fuel got toolow to continue.  They were unable to find the carrier and allditched.  You have to wonder what the problem was with the homing systemthey presumably had.  Were they too busy talking on the radio touse it?   The Enterprise F4F Wildcats accidentallyfollowed VT-8, the Hornet's TBD torpedo bombers, instead of theirown.  Unlike the rest of the Hornet Air Group, VT-8 broke off on adifferent course and found the IJN fleet. But the Enterprise F4F's were not onthe same frequency as VT-8 and as a result circled the IJN fleet until they weretoo low on fuel to continue, and then finally announced they were over theIJN and were breaking off to head home.  WayneWB5WSV      

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