On the morning of June 4, 1942, the Enterprise and two other American carriers-the Yorktown and the Hornet-were a few hundred miles from Midway Island when a patrol plane spotted Japanese aircraft carriers and their escorts heading toward the island. Portz, who interviewed Best recently for an upcoming article in the Order of Daedalians’ quarterly magazine, said that the Americans had broken the Japanese code and learned that the enemy fleet was on its way to Midway. “I knew that I could make the most contribution as a bomber rather than a fighter,” he told The Hook, a journal of carrier aviation, in 1996.īy mid-1942, Best was an experienced combat pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Enterprise in the Pacific. In June 1940, Best returned to the fleet and requested to be assigned to dive bombers.
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