Are there any Midway survivors?
Are there any Midway survivors? Charles Monroe, Truxton “T.K.” Ford and 103-year-old Ervin “Judge” Wendt are among the surviving veterans. “I lost 49 friends that day,” Wendt told FOX 5. The decisive World War II battle between U.S. and Japanese forces took place during the first week of June in 1942.
What happened to Japanese pilots at Midway?
All 248 carrier aircraft were lost, most going down with their ships, along with several cruiser- and battleship-launched float planes. However, most Japanese pilots were rescued; only 36 were lost on the carriers and 74 in the air, mostly from Hiryu.
How did the Yorktown get fixed so fast?
Yard workers at Pearl Harbor, laboring around the clock, made enough repairs to enable the ship to put to sea again in 48 hours. The repairs were made in such a short time that the Japanese Naval Air Commanders would mistake Yorktown for another carrier as they thought she had been sunk during the previous battle.
Has the USS Hornet been found?
The late Paul Allen’s research team discovered the wreckage of World War II’s USS Hornet (CV-8), the aircraft carrier that launched the Doolittle Raid and participated in the Battle of Midway before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands by Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and ship-launched torpedoes.
