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 ...

At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the battle. Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War ...

He had three carriers (233 aircraft, only about a dozen fewer than those ... to patrol portions of the long chain of islets and atolls linking Midway with Hawaii (where the Japanese had once, and ...

Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the ...

aircraft carriers waiting in ambush for the IJN near a tiny atoll whose name would become immortalized in history: Midway. By the end of that day, the Japanese would lose four fleet carriers ...

The carrier departed from San Diego in October and participated last week in a trilateral naval exercise with Japan ... USS Midway. The George Washington was the first nuclear-powered aircraft ...