Comments by "AtomicBabel" (@AtomicBabel) on "The Battle of Midway - Myths, Legends and Greatness (with Jon Parshall)" video.

  1. Memory is not precise. Do remember Dick Best"s picture in 1982 Smithsonian Air & Space, commenting on his lung injury from his oxygen system and medically out from flying after Midway. "I quit at the top!"
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  2. Best Midway "movie" is the TV miniseries "War & Remembrance". The making of the miniseries employed more airplanes than the 1976 movie.
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  3. The USN tradition has been to name destroyers for exemplary service members. Therefore, Best would have a DD in his name sake. Same for Dori Miller (which had a frigate named for him). 81 getting that name pissed me off, it should have been United States, Congress or one of the six frigates. I've moved on from the Ford Class and will always look back w pride.
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  4.  @MrTScolaro  Squadron 633, Mosquitos attacking a heavy water plant. It's free on YouTube movies
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  5.  @davidhunt7427  Thank you for asking the question. I found this on the web and learned something new 🙂 https://www.quora.com/How-was-caustic-soda-formed-in-the-oxygen-rebreather-on-Richard-best-s-Dauntless-during-the-Battle-of-Midway
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  6. We are only a few days away from the anniversary.
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  7. G.D. Spradlin's Spruence was the best Spruence🤓
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  8.  @WALTERBROADDUS  🙂 I found W&R to be more personal
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  9.  @richardmalcolm1457  wish I had a copy 🙂 During the making, 2 SBDs were available and both launched off the Lexington (landed at Pensacola), 4 decades since the last SBD launched off a carrier.
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