So when the Japanese first wave shows up, timeline's bedeviling me a little bit, you know, between maybe 2 and 2.30 in the afternoon, 18 dive bombers, six zero fighters.
The plump silhouettes of the American dauntless dive bombers quickly grew larger, and then a number of black objects suddenly floated eerily from their wings.
These American dive bombers come in here, and within a few minutes, I'll have three of these Japanese carriers on fire and burning, two of them out of control infernos.
And then just as luck would have it in that five minute window when the only time it could do this, the American dive bombers appear and set the things on fire.
The dive bombers, however, plunging almost straight down from 14,000 feet, put three 1,000-pound bombs onto the Shokaku, utterly wrecking her flight deck, though she managed to stay afloat.
Well, it's amazing how often early in the war these planes will, despite saying that they scored hits, it's going to be the dive bombers that take the toll on the Japanese.