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  • Witnessing history - this feels like Midway

    02/18/2017 10:57:53 AM PST · by Peter Gunn · 41 replies
    Battle of Midway Oral History ^ | October 12, 1943 | Lieutenant George Gay
    "I was in a funny position to be cheering for the thing, but I was really tickled to see the dive bombers really pasting them even though they were in pretty bad shape. But during the afternoon after they pretty well burned themselves up, the larger one close to me there, the Akagi, sank just after dark, the cruisers raked her with fire finished her off, and the other two, the Kaga and the Soryu, burned all night, but they didn't necessarily explode. As a matter of fact, the Japs were there trying to put the fires out. I could...