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Nearly all of the Japanese casualties suffered at Midway were from the aircraft carriers. US dive bombers had struck the Japanese carriers, just as deck crewmen were exchanging bombs for torpedo's from the aircraft; because the deck crewmen were ordered to hurry, the replaced bombs/torpedos were on deck (instead of properly stored away), along with the now RE-ARMED & RE-FUELLED attack aircraft. US bombs, from the American dive bombers struck at that very moment. Exploding Japanese aerial bombs, aerial torpedos, and freshly fuelled airplanes, turned the Japanese carrier decks into exploding infernals.

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