[ARC5] YE-ZB at Midway

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Wed Mar 25 14:07:04 EDT 2020


On 25 Mar 2020 at 11:05, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

> 
> At the Battle of Midway all 10 of the F-4F Wildcat fighters launched by the USS Hornet failed to 
> find the IJN fleet, then failed to find their carrier, and ditched.
>  
> I wondered why the YE-ZB system did not work for them, or if they even had it on board, and I 
> recently read a piece in the book "From The Flight Deck"that explains what occurred.  If anyone 
> is interested I will scan that section and e-mail it to you.
> 
> Wayne
> WB5WSV

Wayne: I just went to Amazon to try to find that book you mention: there are easily 10 books 
with that title or those words in the title.

Is the author of your book Peter Mersky, or someone else?

Ken W7EKB


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