At Midway, Japanese pilots attacked an American carrier twice in two hours — and reported sinking two different ships. It was the same ship. She'd been repaired so fast they couldn't believe what they were looking at.
This wasn't a one-time miracle. Across three years and thousands of miles of ocean, Japanese pilots confirmed kills on American ships again and again. Direct hits. Torpedo strikes. Fires visible from miles away. And yet those same ships kept reappearing on the horizon — launching planes, firing guns, refusing to die.
Japan's own carriers sank from less damage. One of their newest, most armored carriers went down from a single torpedo hit. Meanwhile, an American carrier absorbed over 120 explosions fifty miles from Japan — and sailed home under her own power.
Why? The answer involves a New York City fireman, a machinist with a CO2 tank, and a philosophy that turned every cook, chaplain, and signalman into something the Japanese Navy never built.
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