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Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/4/2012 6:40:29 PM   
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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/4/2012 8:33:30 PM   
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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/4/2012 11:00:02 PM   
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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/5/2012 12:36:08 PM   
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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/5/2012 5:47:42 PM   
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I have trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

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Mission Accomplished VT-8. Carry On.

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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/5/2012 7:51:15 PM   
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RIP VT-8!

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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/5/2012 8:03:20 PM   
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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/5/2012 9:38:15 PM   
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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/14/2012 6:18:31 PM   
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I never knew that the TBF's from Midway were a detachment From VT8!

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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/24/2012 11:55:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		One can only speculate how effective VT-8 might have been if only the rest of Hornet's strike package (dive bombers and fighters) had gone in too instead of flying off into nowhere due to inept navigation. Then again, given the limitations of the TBD Devastator and it's torpedoes, and the huge Zero CAP, it might have made little difference, other than to draw fighters away from the dive bombers.

Yorktown was the only carrier that day that was able to coordinate her entire strike and put it all over the target at the same time. Sadly, VT-3 didn't fare much better than VT-8, even with modest fighter cover, but due to the timing and coordination of the strike received the most credit of all for drawing the Zero CAP down low, leaving Max Leslie's dive bombers of VB-3 a free shot at Soryu, which they made the most of.


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RE: Requiescant in Pace, VT-8 - 6/25/2012 12:26:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		What I find interesting is that the USN doesn't (and apparently hasn't for a very long time had a VT-8. VT-7, VT-2, but no VT-8). of course in the current USN VT stands for fixed wing training squadron , vice Torpedo squadron. But still, I wonder if they deliberately "retired the number"?

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