I work for the uss Hornet museum we are looking for infomation artifacts from battle of midway?

Question

we are bulding a spade dedicated to the battle of midway we are a non profit museum in california
you have some thing you would like to donate or help provide stories

Answer 1

Can you give us some reason why we should actually believe you are associated with the USS Hornet Museum? It is pretty mainstream and does not need to rely on people who send misspelled requests for artifacts.

Answer 2

The US Navy website. Earlier this year they had a web special called "The Course to Midway." It focused on the Navy code breakers who figured out Operation MI was the attack on Midway, the Halsey-Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of Midway. Also, if you enter their video section and type Midway you'll bring up all sorts of videos pertaining to the name Midway, many of them on the first page concern the veterans of the battle and honoring those that fought in the battle. Also their Ships section will have a little on the battle, both under the chronologies for some of the ship types and under some of those actually involved.

Then there's NavSource, Haze Gray and Underway, and the Navy Historical Center. From all three you can get info on the US ships in the battle. You can access the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) from Haze Gray and Underway and the Navy Historical Center which will give you fairly detailed history of ships involved, which will include info pertaining to the battle. NavSource and the Navy Historical Center will have battle photos (with NavSource you'll have to get them from the individual ships). The Navy Historical Center has an entier section on the battle.

The website USS Enterprise CV-6 has a section dedicated to the battle. Which should be expected since the site is dedicated to the only US carrier involved in the battle to still in service at the end of the war (both CV-5 USS Yorktown and the and CV-8 USS Hornet were sunk in '42 with the Yorktown being lost at Midway, as you doubtlessly know)

Then there's American Aircraft of World War II, Imperial Japanese Navy Airplanes, WW2 Warbirds, Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In, and Naval Air War In The Pacific. The first three will give you info on planes used by both sides in the battle. Zeno's has a video of the TBF-Avenger (TBF for those produced by Grumman, TBM for those produced by GM; the Avenger made it's debut at Midway in limited numbers) in operation. Zeno's also sales videos and each month they have in their matinee new videos available to be viewed online. One of these that might be of intrest to you when it becomes available again is the one how to identify a Zero. All of their stuff is vintage material. The Naval Air War will give photos and paintings pertaining to theUS side of the naval war in the Pacific. It also has has info on dive bombing, torpedo bombing, take-offs, and landings. While there are pics from the battle you might be intrested in, the others might be of intrest too considering Midway was a carrier battle.

Finally, try checking TheHistoryNet. Some of the articles they have archived from the various history magazines could come in handy. You can do a manual search through the magazines and sections of the website yourself or you can type Midway and/or Battle of Midway into the search engine and let it suggest reading material for you.

Answer 3

Try to contact FOX NEWS they have a segment there about war stories and it is hosted by ex colonel Oliver North and he features one whole episode on that subject and then try to e mail him trough Fox news.com