Midway: why America won the WW2 naval battle
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Midway and Dive Bombers
Dive bombers were better in the sense that they actually did a better job. The japanese plane, the i chi va, had certain advantages, but it was less effective. And most particularly, it carried a smaller bomb, 500 pounds. So whilee japanese dive bombers do scorehits on the york town during the battle, it's actually the japanese torpedo pilots who really finish her off. Still to come on the history extora parte cast.
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