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they were amongst the lowest remnants of
the groomers huge falls

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but these few japanese pilots what

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deadly professionals unlikely that miss
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on intent on revenge the pilots from the
Harry

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soon spotted what they were looking for
no enemy

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carrier it was the USS Yorktown

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the crew the Yorktown horrified to see
the Japanese bombers approaching

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they've been hit by the Japanese before
the battle the Coral Sea

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but this time they were prepared the
experience in the Coral Sea

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told them vital lessons and damage
control which they immediately put into

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action

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the five inch guns opened up first with
loud cracks

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then came the rubble multiple guns

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the enemy bombers and fighters were
under intense anti-aircraft fire from

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all the automatic weapons No

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the sky was black from Shell bursts

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rate tracers makes the sky Japanese
planes were falling

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trailing fire exploding as they hit the
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anti-aircraft guns dropping effective
barrage which destroyed

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many of the approaching Japanese planes
but seven of the bombers made it through

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they dodged the wall flak coming from
the carrier and drop their bombs

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they scored three direct hits the bombs

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ripped through the flight deck
unexploded deep in the heart of worship

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snuffing out the boilers the Yorktown
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it seemed like it was Bowl over for the
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but the Yorktown screw we're not gonna
give up that easily

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deep below decks the engineers struggled
to get the ship going again but the boys

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were wrecked

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pic black smoke poured into the intense
heat in the engine room

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choking them and the

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for over an hour they worked against the
ONS fixing the boilers

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by about 2 o'clock in the afternoon the
Yorktown was operational again

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making about 20 knots

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report from that pilots with an enemy
carrier have been destroyed

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again revived japanese hopes a second
attack called

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was quickly launch from back to you to
find and destroy

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a mother love the american carriers

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1040 to hear your second strike force
arrived

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and lotion on a devastating attack on
the Yorktown the

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the mighty ship taken all that she could
and soon she was listing too

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port accrue had to abandon ship

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I'll

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the Battle of Midway was now too n

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we've won Bible active struck the
japanese believe that shock

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true other three US carriers they didn't
realize they hit the Yorktown

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twice they now thought but they were
fighting on

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equal terms with the Americans with just
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surviving carry out each ok

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based on this misapprehension the
commanders on the herein are made it

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almost unbelievable decision

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for the next 90 minutes the battle

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would be put on hold

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surviving Japanese pilots on the hair
you had been up since before dornan

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they're exhausted by the dais constant
flight operations

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they were barely able to function to
nominate was thought there was only one

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remaining American

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aircraft carrier left sink the men were
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they had time take a rest and grab a
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it was a final fatal miscalculation

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them

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things were not nearly so relaxed Obama
to american carriers

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the American commander and will Bruins
new body

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had two fumble one remaining Japanese
carrier

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and striking before its aircraft could
strike back at new ships

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been in mid-afternoon Spruance got his
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one with his stuck planes have located
the hear you

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than 330

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Spruance mortgages dive bombers to
finish the drama

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and a very much for your shop

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ninety minutes later the dive bombers
appeared high above the wooden flight

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decks at the hearing you

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and began their high-speed dives heading
towards the middle

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in quick succession

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for bombs smashed into the hearing you

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they penetrated the flight deck and
turned the bridge into an inferno

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the last remaining Japanese carrier was
born

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fire

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demo does ambitious midway a battle plan
had ended in catastrophic failure

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with is carrie is gone he tossed vital

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air superiority over the Americans is
still had is big gun battle ships

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but they were little more than white
elephants in this new era where

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aircraft reigns supreme hello to all who
ships back to Japan

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just over a dozen American bombs

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had destroyed the cream of the Imperial
Japanese fleet

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and altered the course of the war in the
Pacific the

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about midway America lost just over

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300 men and one carry on the Yorktown
Japanese losses

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far more severe around 250 planes have
been destroyed

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four carriers have been some and three
thousand men

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kill

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years of combat experience and training
have been wiped out

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the aircraft carrier reigns supreme but
japan had just lost the very minute

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needed

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to wage this kind of warfare

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japan's label par never recovered from
its defeat at Midway

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on june the fall of nineteen forty drew
America

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build a whole new freedom aircraft
carriers but it took

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three more years of bloodshed before the
japanese

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surrendered here on the USS Missouri now
moored in Pearl Harbor

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where the Warhol begun

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mine

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people stop an enemy and only at most
admitted defeat

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when america deliver the final blow
atomic bombs

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on a rush about and mega sake which
launched the world into the nuclear age

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on

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on

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next time the Battle of Stalingrad over
sixty years ago a battle was fought in

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this Russian city

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that would be the turning point in the
second world war it was one of the

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hardest fought battles a full-time

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I'll be revealing what it was like for
the German and Soviet soldiers who

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fought street by street and building by
building

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and I'll be explaining how the leaders
tactics

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Drogba Odom is to the brink of
destruction