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challenges faced by the Yorktown screw
as they struggle to extinguish the flames not true at all
yeah I woke up onto the unit
so this is a a replica of the ship okay we're now in the engine room in this is
where you can imagine
most your fault fighting now you're gonna make your entry damage vertical
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however before you come down here you have to put the fire out
on top bother you live if I did I is in a minute change it by hand so I walked
in Milton crack some he does not make me feel too confident about nomination as
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pointedly protection for the st. it's important that you can't get it right
because the rest the chain
relying on you to get into position to protect them
for the rest of our like make that y donde so it's a real team Joe
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I'll be using much more advance kit not used by the Yorktown screw
Coral Sea but it's still a daunting task
all have the chiro love spring a wall of water to protect my teammates
from the flames
we'd all been briefed in advance
so when you take up my position at the door hey but I still didn't really know
what I was in for so
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with the metal walls heating up all around us would literally be descending
into an other
men on the Yorktown would have faced a similar challenges they
battle to save their ship
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the thought of doing this for real
to carry like the Yorktown loaded with aviation fuel ammunition
was terrifying
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I get on board a ship that's incredibly powerful feeling you're on your own you
could be
you can be a hundred fifty miles from London you're on your own usual train
gonna get down there they're going to put out fire I things were no different
in the Battle of the Coral Sea
back in 1942
although she'd been severely damaged desperate work at the crew
had saved the Yorktown in the coming weeks
this would prove to be a crucial victory the Yorktown would return to home
the Japanese but in the meantime she began a long slow journey back to power
Harbor
for repairs
the Battle of the Coral Sea was a wake-up call
averell Yamamoto commander in chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy im
america's remaining carry ins stood between him
and mastery of the Pacific it was time but drastic
action america's carriers
had to be destroyed they had alluded
don't know show at Pearl Harbor he would not let them escape again
he decided to lay a trap he would target something
so valuable the Americans but they will send out their carriers to protect it
and the bait for his trap would be Midway midway is in fact
true tiny islands West upon why halfway between America and Japan
it was one of the few American air bases
left in the pacific Yamamoto's plan was complex
this involved the greatest naval fleet the world
ever seen the main part of Reed was divided into three groups
your measure himself will be in a group send around three big dumb
battleships to the south another worships
carrying thousands of soldiers woodland on Midway and take control
but here was the spearhead the attack
a group of four aircraft carriers
and the escort ships carrier Strike Force
the 204th aircraft up these carriers
were given true critical tasks first they were bombed the defense's on Midway
ahead of a planned landing then they would stage a huge
airstrike on the american carriers when they came to Midway's rescue
on
leading the carrier Strike Force would be vice admiral
shoe chain okubo on his flagship the Act
ID to carry out from which you had commanded the attack on Pearl Harbor
the groomer was a highly professional mobile apps
with over 30 years service Japanese hiker bombas confident
at the Cooper would one small bpm he reeled Japanese Navy
to victory but his carefully laid plans
underestimated admiral minutes the American commander
after pearl harbor
the Americans had made military intelligence a top priority
and it had paid off that japanese naval code had been cracked
here at the intelligence headquarters in Pearl Harbor
the US Navy deciphered details have given out as planned
to set a trap at Midway with this information
nimitz now planned ambush of his own
being
limits now had three operational carriers
in Pearl Harbor the carriers USS Enterprise
and USS Hornet departed first then
the newly repaired USS Yorktown followed on
a little way be hard
the three carriers headed from Hawai for a spot code-named point
fuck 300 miles northeast of the American base
on Broadway
by the second June they were in position and mining in weight
for the Japanese ships that we're approaching from the north west
men should give his commanders a single bolt objective
to ambush the approaching Japanese Street now heading for Midway
and strike a decisive blow it its carriers
but these weren't the only preparations admits was making
out in the middle of the Pacific the US base at Midway
was buzzing with activity preparations were underway
flight after flights and planes have been ran me over the last few days
and now a small airfield was packed with as many planes that can handle
this place
would be vital in the defensive the island so
with the US Marines would be waiting for the Japanese if they try to land
by June with us the pilots the waiting by the airplanes
the Marines and that bankers