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| Keywords: Ditched VT-3 TBD during Battle of Midway 1942.jpg The U S Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator BuNo 0303 T-3 from Torpedo Squadron VT-3 sinking after a water landing alongside the destroyer USS Monaghan DD-354 ca at 1305 hrs on 4 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway Pilot Machinist Harry Lee Corl and his gunner Lloyd Fred Childers ARM3c were launched from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5 and had attacked the Japanese carrier Hiryu T-3 was heavily damaged by fighters and Corl had to jettison his torpedo but managed to reach Task Force 16 Only two of 12 VT-3 planes were not shot down but the other two had to ditch Corl himself was lost during the Battle of Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942 scan from Robert J Cressmann ed A Glorious Page in Our History The Battle of Midway 4-6 June 1942 Pictoral Histories Publishing Missoula/Montana 1990 ISBN 0929521404 p 126 1942-06-04 Lt JG H H Kait USN aboard USS Monaghan PD-USGov-Military-Navy Douglas TBD Devastator Battle of Midway US forces Destroyed aircraft Aircraft damaged in combat USS Monaghan DD-354 | ||||
