File:Ditched VT-3 TBD during Battle of Midway 1942.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator (BuNo 0303, "T-3") from Torpedo Squadron VT-3 sinking after a water landing alongside the destroyer USS Monaghan (DD-354), ca. at 1305 hrs on 4 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway. Pilot Machinist Harry Lee Corl and his gunner Lloyd Fred Childers, ARM3c, were launched from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) and had attacked the Japanese carrier Hiryu. "T-3" was heavily damaged by fighters and Corl had to jettison his torpedo but managed to reach Task Force 16. Only two of 12 VT-3 planes were not shot down, but the other two had to ditch. Corl himself was lost during the Battle of Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942.
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Source scan from "Robert J. Cressmann (ed.): A Glorious Page in Our History. The Battle of Midway, 4-6 June 1942. Pictoral Histories Publishing, Missoula/Montana 1990. ISBN 0929521404, p. 126.
Author Lt. JG H.H. Kait, USN (aboard USS Monaghan)

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