JIM MURI, 93
A Battle of Midway hero died February 3, 2013. He saved his crippled B-26 bomber by buzzing the deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier.
On June 4, 1942, he piloted one of four b-26 bombers from Midway Island. His plane was hit by gunfire and three wounded. Even so, he managed to launch a torpedo at the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi.
He then flew his bomber about tree-top high along the flight deck of the ship because its guns were facing outward and managed to crash land back on Midway Island. Afterwards, they counted some 500 bullet holes in the plane.
Losses at the Battle of Midway:
U.S.: 1 aircraft carrier, 145 planes, 307 men.
Japanese: 4 aircraft carriers, 1 heavy cruiser, 291 planes and 4,800 men.
--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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