Ensign Carl Peiffer's bomb hits were never verified and he disappeared on his way back to the ship and was never found.
Army Air Force Lt. Col. Brooke Empie Allen flew four missions from Midway Island over two days, but was too high and struck nothing, but he did scatter the Japanese formation to the advantage of the naval planes.
Peiffer posthumously received the Navy Cross. Dickinson earned a Navy Cross on December 7, 1941, and then again on December 10th when he was credited with sinking the first enemy surface ship in the war. He also received an Air Medal in February for sinking a Japanese transport at Kwajalein.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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