Carrier Air Group detail for the Battle of Midway
A few years ago I bookmarked several appendices pages of a site at www.centuryinter.net, but sadly the site is now defunct.
The site's appendices detailed for each of the units, eg VB-3, VF-3, VF-6 and so on, each aircraft code for each mission and also listed the crewmembers for each aircraft for each mission. The relevant appenices on the old site were, from memory, either 4 or 7. I have since found some info for VB-3, VS-5, VB-6 and VS-6 at various other sites, but really want VF-3, VF-5 and VF-6 in particular, and these still elude me. The information is like this - 3-B-1 Lt-Cdr.M.F. Leslie GALLAGHER, W.E. ARM1c 3-B-2 Lt(jg) P.A. Holmberg LA PLANT G.A., AMM2c 3-B-3 Ensign P.W. Schlegel SHROPSHIRE, J.A., ARM2c 3-B-4 Ensign R.K. Campbell CRAIG, H.H., AMM1c 3-B-5 Ensign A.W. Hanson GODFREY, J.J., ARM3c 3-B-6 Ensign R.H. Benson BERGERON, F.P., ARM3c As the battle continuedand aircraft were lost, the code order didn't look as neat as that above. Did anyone here happen to save the info? Can anyone tell me if this info was saved on another site? If so, where?? Is it available anywhere else? Thanks Peter |
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Have you tried the Web Archive website:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.centuryinter.net Websites will usually be incomplete but you can still find what you search. |
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Have you also tried the book "THE FIRST TEAM" by JOHN B.LUNDSTROM it may give you the info you are looking for. peter.r
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Thanks Laurent - found most of it at the link you provided. The bits I had found already were at an archive site archive.li.
Thanks for the book reference Peter. Cheers Peter |
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You can find transcriptions of the VB-3 report and others are here
http://www.midway1942.com/docs/usn_doc_08.shtml |
Carrier Air Group detail for the Battle of Midway
Another book is Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway by Stephen L. Moore which details the dive bomber crews in the Battle of Midway. Another book of his is The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal by Stephen L. Moore which deals with dive bomber crews from December 7 through Coral Sea, then Guadalcanal.
James |
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Shoot, my father was in VF-3/42 and while I do have some original documents, including a copy the tactical organization after Lovelace's death, and I've scanned a few of them, I am mostly loath to drag them out as they are a little fragile. I suspect that after 10 fighters went in the water including the CO, VF-8 may have been a little reluctant to produce a report. That squadron was disestablished within days of the return to Pearl Harbor. Anyway, here's the VF-3 organization from 31 May 1942 if it is of any use. Rich |
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Cheers Peter |
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