National Geographic: The Battle for Midway Page #2
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called ATV
equipped with lights and video cameras
Will Ballard finally, after years
of planning and enormous effort,
be able to find the downed Yorktown?
For the veterans,
the ATV is a time machine
carrying them back to a distant world
of fury and fire.
All stations, deploying the vehicle
into the water now.
I remember walking up and down those
decks and 56 years after the fact,
I'm gonna look at those decks again.
And it'll bring back memories.
The ATV has now traveled over two miles
and almost five decades.
The ocean bottom is getting close.
Twelve thousand feet
The depth Ballard found Titanic.
All stations...
past the one-five-thousand feet.
Passing one-five thousand feet, aye.
Approaching 16,000, the depth Ballard
found the battleship Bismarck.
Nearing the sea floor, deeper than
Ballard has ever gone before.
Under the relentless pressure
of the ocean depths,
key equipment on the ATV has imploded.
It has collapsed into itself,
reducing metal and glass to rubble.
The ATV is crippled.
Just how badly no one yet knows.
It's a disaster that may mean the end
of the expedition.
June 3, 1942
are now heavily defended
by hundreds of
young American servicemen
and dozens of bombers,
fighters, torpedo planes.
The battle is less than 24 hours away.
Among those waiting is a small
six-plane torpedo bomber squadron.
Both the planes and their young crews
are untested in combat,
but the young pilots are eager
to face the Japanese.
Seventeen-year-old Harry Ferrier
served as a radioman and gunner.
You don't think about the fact
that people do get killed, you know,
as a teenager, which I really was.
You think you're immortal.
And we had what we thought were
the best airplanes
that the Navy had come up with
the Japanese the hell,
I guess you'd say, and come back.
And it didn't work that way.
Dawn, June 4th nearly six months
to the day since Pearl Harbor.
Two hundred-forty miles from Midway,
Admiral Chuichi Nagumo readies
his attack.
He is supremely confident
of the final outcome
and utterly unaware of the American
aircraft carriers slowly closing in.
My spirits were, well, up to then,
we had won ever battle we fought,
so we thought we would win again.
Now is the moment of attack.
Six a.m.
With Japanese aircraft bearing down,
the American planes on Midway scramble
into the air.
With them is the torpedo bomber
carrying Harry Ferrier,
Bert Earnest and the third member
of their crew,
Jay Manning, the turret gunner.
They're going after
the Japanese carriers.
Earnest, Ferrier and
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