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Originally Posted by Tbolter
I agree, Old Troll, and then at the battle of Midway the TBD's lost fighter escort contact, made the torpedo approaches anyway...40+ started out 4 came back. I don't think many, if any torpedos did any significant damage.
The only thing that futile effort did was to get everyone sufficiently pissed off to go back and sink some Japanese ships later.
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The reported reality was that the Japanese fighter screen was dragged down to sea level to attack and chase the TBDs this gave the US dive bombers a free kick at the carriers. The dive bombers caught the Japanese carriers in the midst of changing over munitions - the result is well known.
Regards,
Charlie