[skeeter]

I attended a Midway 45 anniversary ceremony on the Hornet (CV-12) and met alot of these great guys. Jack Reid, who flew the PBY that first spotted Yamamoto's invasion force, was in attendance.

There will not be another American generation like them.

BTW Steven Moore's Pacific Payback is a pretty good book as well. It details the early war operations of these naval aviators.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Could not agree more; men like Jack Reid and Harry Furrier not only saved the country, they saved the world. Sadly, so many of their comrades had to die in the process because feckless political leaders ignored the gathering storm, willfully or negligently. Units like Bombing 6 and Torpedo 8 held the line until we began churning out the vast waves of men and material required to win the war. Haven't read Moore's book, but I'll put it on my list.