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Months that followed, the allies suffered many defeatsmany casua. japan captured in footholds across the pacific and was closing in on australia. in may 1942 the army moved on the base just a few hundred miles from australian shores. it was there off the coast that american and australian ships met the enemy in the coral sea. on the morning of may 7th, jack powers launched his dauntless dive bomber from the depth and a deck the yorktown. he was some flyer, i could tell you that, some great flyer.

Soon he dived straight at an enemy carrier and dropped his bomb so low, he was almost caught in the blast, he was badly hurt. but he escaped and the carrier sank. that night on the yorktown, jack urged the other pilots to take the same risk, he said that's the way you do it. that's the way you win. that's the way you sink them. whatever the cost even if it costs you your lives, that's the way you sink the ship. the next morning he pressed his point again remembering he said at the folks home are counting on us. i'm going to get a hit if i have to lay it down right next to that flight deck. in ...

It's the story of lieutenant jack powers, a navy flyer, he grew up just miles from here in a modest apartment in washington heights, right up the road. he then went on to the united states naval academy, incredible place. there his roommates said of jack, "never trust him to respect convention realities, because he wasn't a conventional person." he's a hilarious rebel and his own man. you'll like him and really like him a lot, but you know what? he's just a different kind of a guy. in other words, he was a new yorker. [applause] by the attack on pearl harbor, jack had already served six years ...

Soon he dived straight at an enemy carrier and dropped his bomb so low, he was almost caught in the blast, he was badly hurt. but he escaped and the carrier sank. that night on the yorktown, jack urged the other pilots to take the same risk, he said that's the way you do it. that's the way you win. that's the way you sink them. whatever the cost even if it costs you your lives, that's the way you sink the ship. the next morning he pressed his point again remembering he said at the folks home are counting on us. i'm going to get a hit if i have to lay it down right next to that flight deck. in ...