Midway on June 4, 1942 was a decisive battle of the Pacific War. Lt. Richard Best is in Squadron Six(VB-6) of the USS Enterprise Air flying an SBD Dauntless bomber. The Americans are going up against ...

fought at the Battle of Midway, the Eastern Solomons , and the Santa Cruz Islands, where on 24 October 1942 she took four Japanese bombs and three aerial torpedoes plus two suicide crashes by damaged ...

Seventy-five years ago (June 4-7, 1942), the astonishing American victory at the Battle ... off Midway Island (about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu), sinking four of its aircraft carriers.

On April 15, 1935, the Douglas TBD Devastator took to the skies for the first time, marking a bold leap forward in naval ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment ...

Soon after the battle, the torpedo bombers were withdrawn ... fool even the most discerning airplane buff. While the Midway aircraft carrier museum doesn’t ordinarily display replicas ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War and, Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle, has produced a meticulous, ...