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First Night Attack By Torpedo Planes Hits Japs
Navy reports describe Midway naval battle actions from June 3 to 6. Ensign Jewell Reid first spotted the Japanese fleet, leading a night torpedo strike by flying boats on Kaga Akagi and Soryu carriers. Four boats participated, three returned, one sank. Survivors recount long ocean ordeals, 40 men on mission, rescue delays, and shark-haunted rubber lifeboats amid heavy anti-aircraft fire and carrier operations.
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Peanl Harbor
Tom
Midway
Logan Ramsey
Philadelphi
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Ramsey
Jewell Reid
Paducah
Reid
Alreany
Galdin Ramsey
William Richards
Collingswood
N. J
Gilal
Charles P. Hibbered
West
Springfield
Masa
Bila
Liewt
Gaylord Probst
Los Angeles
Litut
Douglas
Davis
St. Louis
Py Dents
Alan Rothenberg
Washington, D. C
Tits Alstorie
Probst
F. Massie Hughes
Selma
Ala
Desstroyer
Philip L. Fulghum
Aviation
Ard- Nahceman
Portland
Ore
Denver
Tokyo
Easton Lee McCleery
John Weekz
Fallbrook
Calif
Virgil March
Alameda
Herald
Harry Pf, Ady
San Antonio
Maurice Smith
Lodi
William E. Ghase
Altoona
William ©. Garbett
Philadelphia
Theodore Thueson
Newburgh
N. Y
Thueson