Exciting I think. The article is off a bit but I think 15 F2A Buffalo's and 6 F4F Wildcats got airborne to engage the Japanese at Midway during the island attack; 13 of the 15 Buffalo's were shot down, 2 of the Wildcat's were shot down.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...-exciting.html
One more interesting find took place in 1998, a Navy pilot, Pug Southerland, from VF-5 flying an F4F Wildcat had just shot down the first Betty bomber of the Guadalcanal and then took on 3 Zero's, the last of which was the leading Japan ace at the time with 50 or so damaged/destroyed allied aircraft, Saburo Sakai. In his book, Sakai describes the dogfight in detail and I think the bullet holes found in the Wildcat match his description. Anyway, the story for that one:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/prev...ght/clues.html
I like that this 1911 was found as well, the pics:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/f4f/5192.html
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...-exciting.html
One more interesting find took place in 1998, a Navy pilot, Pug Southerland, from VF-5 flying an F4F Wildcat had just shot down the first Betty bomber of the Guadalcanal and then took on 3 Zero's, the last of which was the leading Japan ace at the time with 50 or so damaged/destroyed allied aircraft, Saburo Sakai. In his book, Sakai describes the dogfight in detail and I think the bullet holes found in the Wildcat match his description. Anyway, the story for that one:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/prev...ght/clues.html
I like that this 1911 was found as well, the pics:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/f4f/5192.html