The forty-eight-hour miracle that saved USS Yorktown and turned the tide at Midway
How 1,400 shipyard workers repaired USS Yorktown in 72 hours, giving the Navy the third carrier that won the Battle of Midway.
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Saburo Sakai and the four-hour flight home blind in one eye from Guadalcanal
How Saburo Sakai flew 560 miles home with a bullet in his head after being hit over Guadalcanal in 1942.
TaildraggerThe Battle of the Coral Sea and the carrier duel where warships never saw each other
The Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 was the first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft, where opposing fleets never saw each other.
TaildraggerThe Doolittle Raid and sixteen B twenty-fives that changed the course of the Pacific War
The Doolittle Raid of April 1942 launched sixteen B-25 bombers from a carrier deck to strike Tokyo and alter the course of the Pacific War.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
The Grumman F6F Hellcat achieved a 19-to-1 kill ratio and destroyed Japanese naval aviation at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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