TBF Avenger of the VT-8 Midway 25 June 1942
Survivor from the courageous attack on the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942. Assigned to USS Hornet the six had, in fact, departed from Midway itself. It was to the same airstrip that this Avenger returned, with weapon doors hanging open,
one leg hanging down, one gunner dead and the other wounded, and only the trim tabs for longitudinal control,