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Originally Posted by NN5I
Answers, the ones that I know anyway. Five carriers were sunk at Midway. Four of them Kaga, Akagi, Soryu, and Hiryu, were Japanese. The fifth one, Yorktown, was American, and her commander was Elliott Buckmaster, CAPT, USN. He survived. Buckmaster was a radio ham, and I've always wondered what his callsign was.
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Found it! Elliott Buckmaster's callsign was W6SNL.
Not only that, but:
General Curtis E LeMay was W6EZY.
Col. Paul W Tibbets (pilot of
Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima), was K4ZVZ. His radar countermeasures officer was Jacob Beser, W3NOD.
Lawson P "Red" Ramage (One of the bravest men who ever lived, earned Medal of Honor as Captain of submarine
USS Parche) was KB3DE.