The Battle of Midway Page #3
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with everything they've got.
Less than half an hour later,
the first Japanese strike is over.
But if the enemy aircraft carriers
are not stopped soon, Midway may fall.
Sixfifty a.m. June 4, 1942.
A hundredandsixty miles
from a battletorn Midway,
the torpedo bomber carrying Ferrier,
Earnest and Manning head straight
at the Japanese fleet.
As they near the carriers,
becomes more intense.
And tragically effective.
But very shortly,
Manning had stopped firing,
and so I looked back over my shoulder
to see what was going on,
and he was just hanging down
in his harness in the turret
and obviously had been killed.
And then, really, the next thing
with my head hanging down
and blood pouring off my head.
Their plane is shot up.
Their controls and compass out
of commission.
Their comrade Jay Manning is dead.
But Ferrier and Earnest
are still alive
and now they have
I decided to climb up above the clouds
and see if I could see anything,
and I did.
And when I got up there,
smoke over to the east.
...and realized that probably
was Midway, which had been attacked.
They manage to land safely in a
plane that is literally shot to pieces.
a field hospital,
Harry Ferrier waits for the return of
the other five planes in his squadron.
He waits in vain.
But it was afternoon,
you know, early afternoon,
and it became obvious that our airplane
was the only one that had come back
that the other five did not,
and we eventually just had to accept
the fact that they
all five were shot down.
It is day eight of the expedition.
Ballard's robot explorer, the ATV,
is still crippled.
And the Navy doesn't know if they can get it and fully running again.
They need more time,
the one thing Ballard can't spare.
Fortunately, the sonar
Instead of just waiting,
Ballard leaves
to look for Japanese carriers
at a site 170 miles away.
The Japanese veterans
have not seen these waters in 56 years
not since the death of their ship,
the Kaga.
Yet here, time is erased.
My heart is racing in anticipation
of seeing the ship.
I keep remembering the image
of the sinking carrier.
I hope it is found soon.
After all the frustration and delay,
the ATV makes it to the bottom
of the sea.
But all too soon,
Ballard realizes the bottom is barren
no carrier, no planes
just rocks and mud.
No excuses.
I just didn't fiind it. Period.
Round one.
To Kaga.
I'll get to Yorktown.
I really want the Yorktown.
That's where I'm headed.
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