Torpedo Squadron 8 was a group of young, inexperienced pilots thrust into the heart of the Pacific War. Led by the determined ...

On the morning of June 4, 1942, the fifteen planes of Torpedo 8 broke formation and flew alone toward the Japanese fleet.

June 4 marked the 70th anniversary of the pivotal engagement in the three-day Battle of Midway. In just over five minutes, U.S. Navy dive bombers attacked and sank four Japanese aircraft carriers.

With a telling worthy of his award-winning fiction and buttressed by prodigious research, Robert J. Mrazek's "A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight" recounts the story of a ...

John Ford splices together footage of Torpedo Squadron 8, all but one of whom were later shot down and killed in the Battle of Midway. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ensign George H. Gay, Jr. of Waco, ...

The sentinels. Smiley ; The skipper ; Swede ; The squire ; Old Langdon ; Tex ; Bert and Harry ; Grant and Whitey ; Ozzie and Rete ; Freddy -- Eventide -- He that she live this day and see old age -- ...

June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.—only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8—gaily stole the Navy’s show.

A front page article Tuesday featured the commemoration of the Battle of Midway 70 years ago. (“Oak Harbor WWII vet is last of his Midway squadron.”) It told the story of 16-year-old Harry Ferrier, a ...