On June 4, 1942, every American torpedo bomber that attacked the Japanese fleet at Midway was shot down or crippled. Not one torpedo hit. Four Japanese carriers were still afloat, still launching aircraft, still winning.
Lieutenant Dick Best — a thirty-two-year-old dive bomber pilot from USS Enterprise — pushed into a near-vertical dive toward Akagi, the flagship of Japan's strike force. Three planes against a fleet carrier. No fighter escort. And an oxygen system that was already poisoning him with every breath he took.
This is the story of the pilot who changed the war in a single afternoon — and what it cost him.
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