One of the dive bomber pilots said the deck of `his’ carrier was painted yellow (ours were painted sea blue) with a big red `meatball’. He just aimed for the meatball.
This showed some of their arrogance, having run loose in the Pacific for years without suffering a defeat.
The battle also demonstrated to the Japanese (what the Japanese called) the “samurai spirit of the American aviators”—particularly the torpedo plane pilots who suffered ... grievous losses, but kept on coming.
They kept the Zeros defending the carriers busy so that the dive bombers were able to sink three Japanese carriers.
That kind of courage is remarkable.
This is a day that American grade, middle and high school classes should remember every June 4th, but I suppose they’re too busy ventilating such critical Obamanite issues as “white privilege”.