VT-8’s TBF detachment at Midway

Author

Samuel J. Cox · Naval History and Heritage Command

Date

May 2022 · H-072-1

Passage

Detachment formation; six TBF-1s; Earnest, Manning and Ferrier; return to Midway

What has been checked

Selected indexed passages read. Direct page retrieval failed; contemporary individual crew reports not inspected.

How to read it

Later interpretation, not an original action report. Its proposed causal chain through Nautilus and Arashi is not adopted. Conflicting aircraft serial renderings, the date of the Avenger name, exact damage totals and total casualty arithmetic are excluded.