A Japanese pilot said “ it was amazing seeing 500 to 1000 ships only about 200 yards from one another.“ Tora, Tora, Tora meaning Attack, Attack, Attack in Japanese was called and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. America was in the war. The Americans were outraged and did all they could to support the war. The British were happy we were bombed because they wanted our help in the war.

A month after the Coral Sea battle the battle of Midway broke out. The battle of Midway was a major naval battle. It was fought June 4 through June 7, 1942. The Americans cracked a Japanese code and set a trap for their fleet by saying their base had water supply problems and completely destroyed them. The U.S. “hell divers” had the hardest job of them all, bombing ships while in anti-aircraft fire. One Japanese on a carrier described being bombed by Hell Divers “a lookout screamed, ‘Hell Divers!’” then he looked up in time to see three dark shapes so close to the ship you could see the pilots in the sky and smaller specks getting bigger until you could see they were bombs. Three ships all sunk at the same time within 24 hours because of the Hell Divers.

This is a Kamikaze fighter.

USS Bunker Hill after two Kamikaze attacks.