I recently watched this 15 minute animated YouTube video about the battle of Midway. Though the United States had the element of surprise from better intelligence, they lost a remarkable amount of dive bombers and torpedo bombers to the superior Japanese Mitsubishi “Zeroes”. The US bomber groups consisting of both bombers and fighters head out in a formation capable of protecting themselves. Together, at the very least with the amount of planes in their groups, they would be able to keep ...
