Mitscher and the mystery of Midway

[Dili]

http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhist ... dium=email

[dr.hal]

Thanks Dili, great catch. Reading the "comments" it is clear that the controversy still hits people hard! Hal

[USSAmerica]

Great article. Thanks for posting, Dili.

[SuluSea]

Thought provoking article, thanks for posting it. [:)]

[ilovestrategy]

Dang. I still learn something new.

[Alekks]

Interesting read. If the account is accurate, Mitscher did face a dilemma when writing up his report.

[Commander Stormwolf]

Truth is the first casualty in war,

only believe the day a war begins, and the day a war ends

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Interesting...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Nikademus]

Symonds Midway book is a good one. I'd recommend it as it gives a more detailed accounting of the US side of the battle.

[oldman45]

It makes perfect sense why Mitscher would write his report the way he did. Assuming the author is correct.

[danlongman]

I am presuming from my years of lurking there are at least 2 people on here who might be considered experts
on the Pacific War and USN Ops therein. I has a question: to wit "What is/was the Magnetic Deviation Error at Midway in June 1942?"
Right here right now it is 21 degrees East.
cheers

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: danlongman

I am presuming from my years of lurking there are at least 2 people on here who might be considered experts
on the Pacific War and USN Ops therein. I has a question: to wit "What is/was the Magnetic Deviation Error at Midway in June 1942?"
Right here right now it is 21 degrees East.
cheers

The magnetic variation was 7 degrees east.

Midway Roundtable

[danlongman]

Thank you. Even today modern Jet liners make occasional embarassing errors with that.
However that is not big enough to add anything to the discussion.
I have been involved in incidents where Pilots made very clear errors between Magnetic and True
(if the glove fits) and just plain lied about it. Like accidentally calling your teacher "Mommy".
cheers

[mikkey]

interesting article, thanks for sharing Dili

[warspite1]

Thanks Dili - that was a very interesting article. So if that is true then either way the brave Waldron was doomed...he found the Japanese and perished but had he failed to find them and survived he would have been charged with mutiny....

[spence]

One can read Admiral Mitscher's report itself in the raw and compare it to the reports of many of the other commanders (ships, squadrons, task forces and surviving flyers from the nearly wiped out torpedo squadrons) in their official after action reports at:

http://www.midway42.org/reports.html

(this page is just the index with clickable links to the AARs)