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A2 Wednesday, August 9, 1995 The Honolulu Advertiser iniatei that cost Japan the war Five i well i 10- Carriers wiped out at Midway By Jerome Ilagen Special to The Advertiser By mid-1942, Japan had achieved conquests across the Pacific and into Asia. Then came Midway. A confident Japan sent its Combined Fleet to take the American-held island. It was the turning point in the Pacific War. Adm.

Isoroku Yamamoto believed that Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo's heavy carriers and fast battleships could annihilate any force that U.S. Adm. Chester Nimitz could send to Midway to defend American positions. The preponderance of power favored the Japanese.

Their Combined Fleet included over 200 ships and 600 aircraft. The Midway operation alone would include the carriers Akagi, Ka-ga, Soryu and Hiryu, plus 11 battleships, three of which were the strongest and fastest in the world. To offset Japanese strength, Nimitz had his Naval Intelligence Service. Through intercepts and decoding of messages, he knew the date and location of the planned attack and the planned diversionary attacks on Kiska, Attu and Adak in the Aleutians. He was determined not to fall for the Aleutian trap, and made plans to set his own trap off Midway.

Midway, while not defenseless, could not have held out against the much stronger Japanese force alone. Yamamoto knew the Pacific Fleet would intervene. A U.S. Catalina flying boat out of Midway first sighted the Dive bombers from the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown attack at Midway that lasted little more than five minutes. File photo sunk three Japanese carriers in an three carriers were doomed.

The carrier Hiryu launched 40 aircraft which severely damaged the Yorktown. The damage was controlled until several hours later, when Hiryu torpedo planes again hit the Yorktown. It was abandoned but remained floating for two days until sunk by a Japanese submarine. Enterprise dive bombers located the Hiryu at 5 p.m., and made it a flaming wreck in just a few minutes. She sank the following morning.

During the subsequent withdrawal ordered by Yamamoto, two of his heavy cruisers collided and were found by Midway-based aircraft the next launched 131 bombers and torpedo planes against the carriers. The first assaults were decimated by Japanese fire. But what happened in the next five minutes changed the course of the war forever. Fighting back While the torpedo bombers were being blasted out of the sky by Zeros and antiaircraft fire, 37 dive bombers from Enterprise and Yorktown attacked and put bombs in Akagi and Kaga. At the same time, 17 dive bombers from Yorktown attacked Soryu and scored direct hits.

Within minutes, all Trial: Life of slain swimmer recounted B.C. court rules groups can beg, not sell in parks kind of attack possible and had not suffered any damage while inflicting tremendous losses on the attackers. As the Japanese were recovering from the Midway strike and rearming for another strike against the runways, they received a report of one enemy carrier, five cruisers and five destroyers 240 miles from Midway. The Japanese carrier force sped toward the U.S. position.

Adm. Raymond Spruance, heading the second carrier task force, had waited until the Japanese carrier planes returned from their Midway raid and were on the decks being refueled and rearmed. He then Shirley Jones "Would like to say goodbye" from the beach, testified she and her husband swam about three times a week off the Ka-pahulu groin. She said he would meticulously measure distances and estimated at a yard for a full stroke that they were about 300 yards offshore on that holiday afternoon when he indicated he was going to swim just a little farther out another 75 to 100 yards. Jones testified she started swimming back to shore when she was startled by a noise and large shadow.

She said a large sea turtle and a smaller one escorted her back to the beach. morning. The SB2U Marine dive bombers attacked the well-armed cruisers. Capt. Richard Fleming, his aircraft on fire, flew his plane into the cruiser Mikuma and destroyed it, earning him the posthumous Medal of Honor.

The second cruiser, the Mogami, was crippled but eventually reached repair facilities in Japan. In addition to the carriers Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu, Japan lost the battleship Ha-runa, the cruiser Mikuma and 332 aircraft. The cruiser Mogami was badly damaged. Lesser amounts of damage were suffered by three destroyers and an oiler. The U.S.

Pacific Fleet lost the carrier Yorktown, the destroyer Hamman and 147 aircraft. The Aleutian diversionary force occupied Attu and Kiska for a short period but in no way made up for the loss of the four Japanese carriers. The rigidity of Japanese planning and their tendency to abandon their project when events did not go according to plan would be widely communicated to Allied forces and would be repeated many times throughout the war. The importance of the U.S. victory in the Battle of Midway cannot be overemphasized.

In just five minutes, the entire position of the Japanese forces in the Pacific changed from dominant to doubtful. The expansion phase of Japanese aggression had ended. The road to victory for the Allies may remain long and hard, but the issue was no longer in doubt. Tomorrow: The Death of Adm. Yamamoto Jerome Hagen is dean of academic advising at Hawaii Pacific University and teaches the course "War in the The retired brigadier general has done extensive research, lectured on tlie subject and traveled widely in the Pacific.

Some popular Oahu attrac tions are facing similar protri lems because there are no state rules governing Groups hawking T-shirts, juice, hats, ice cream and sodas have set up shop at Waikiki, Hanau-1 ma Bay, the Pali Lookout and the Diamond Head crater. The Sri Ram Society a branch of the Hare Krishnad is one of the groups, which are all claiming free-speech rights. Sri Ram offers bottled water, cold drinks and snacks in return for donations. The City Council brought the Waikiki problem under control last year by enacting an ordinance that limited vendors to 15 specific sites. But that forced vendors to other and sent state park officials scurrying to come up with new rules and regulations.

It could be some time before" those are in place. Carl Varady, an attorney for Sri Lam, emphasized that the federal ruling does not affect Hawaii because the law focuses, only on the D.C. monuments. in photo The key is having photographs of parents and siblings' at the age the missing child would be now. All are scanned into a computer.

"We can stretch the photograph to approximate normal cranial facial growth," Miller said. "Once we do that, we can merge the stretched image with either the mother or the father." Miller spent a lot of time comparing Donna's face with her brother's. He looked for subtle things that a person retains through life, then air-brushed these features onto his stretched photo. He used David Kempton's eyes and smile lines because they seemed to show up prominently in a recent photo of his son. "I even adjusted the mouth in a slightly upward position, trying to look at family likenesses, subtleties and uniquenesses." Miller said.

He's confident the image is Donna Rae Kempton. David Kempton isn't sure. But maybe it will bring her back. "There's a big hole in my life that I would like to resolve," he said. "I wonder what she! looks like." FROM PAGE ONE Jones was the last witness for the prosecution in Bowman's trial on a charge of second-degree negligent homicide.

The 50-year-old McKinley High School teacher is accused of driving an 18-foot Bayliner powerboat too close to shore and running over Cannon Jones the late afternoon of the July 4th holiday last year. Cannon Jones, 67, a retired federal highway engineer, bled to death from cuts to his abdomen and right leg. GETTING IT STRAIGHT Part 10 of a monthlong Advertiser series detailing events of World War II in the Pacific and the effects on those who fought in it Japanese landing force of 11 troop transports 700 miles west of Midway at 9 a.m. on June 3. Army B-17 bombers attacked the convoy in early afternoon, inflicting no damage.

During this engagement, Adm. Frank Fletcher, heading one of two task forces, positioned his carrier forces 200 miles north of Midway and waited. Their presence at Midway was still unknown to the Japanese. The Japanese carrier force was located at first light on June 4, an hour after it had launched 108 aircraft to attack Midway. At 6:16 a.m., about 30 miles northwest of Midway, the old Brewster fighters of Marine Fighter Squadron-221 met the incoming Japanese attack force.

The first wave of the versatile Zero fighters shot down nine Brewsters. The second wave of Zeros destroyed six more. The Japanese lost four bombers and two Zeros while causing heavy structural damage and creating large fires and many casualties. But they did not put the runway out of operation. Further U.S.

warplane attacks against the carriers over the next hour did little damage as American air losses continued. The Japanese were not Impressed with the tactics or ability of the Americans. They had been subjected to about every A key point of dispute is the location of the incident which the defense says happened some mile to 1 mile offshore and out of the zone requiring boats to generally travel less than five miles an hour and not to create any wakes. But Mrs. Jones' testimony yesterday placed her husband only about 400 yards offshore, which would be within the "no-wake" zone.

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For delivery of a missing or damaged paper on Oahu, please call 538-NEWS (538-6397) before 9 a.m. Monday-Saturday, or before 11:30 a m. Sunday. 1- -t Janet Bowman Moved to tears by testimony "I thought I can't wait to tell Cannon about this," she testified. But when she got to the beach, her husband wasn't there, she said.

She testified she became frightened, went to a nearby store and called for help. Police later took her to The Queen's Medical Center, where a doctor that night told her, "We tried, but he couldn't make it." The trial in Circuit Judge Melvin Soong's courtroom resumes today with the defense putting on its case. rassing. But the rendering is the first lead he's had since his daughter was taken. He is a father buoyed by hope for the first time.

His ex-wife was a war bride from Burma. They met in Calcutta at the end of World War II and were married in 1946. Afterward, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio. The marriage ended on New Year's Eve 1952. She had fallen in love with another man, an itinerant factory worker.

Ultimately, Kempton was given custody of his children. But on the first weekend of a scheduled visitation in September 1953, she only wanted Donna. Kempton dropped off the child on a Friday and never saw her, or her mother, again. Investigators had nothing to go on because his wife had no relatives in the United States. And Kempton knew nothing about her new beau.

"That's where it ended," Kempton said. "I went on and made a life." He married again, this time to a woman with two children. They had another child and brought the family to Hawaii in 1970. Clues: Missing girl ages 42 years Advertiser Staff and News Services WASHINGTON 'Hare Krishnas can solicit contributions but can't sell their beads, incense and audiotapes on the Washington Mall between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said National Park Service rules against soliciting contributions on the landscaped mall violate free-speech guarantees in the Constitution. In Hawaii, some groups have been lobbying the state to use the national park rules as a guideline for a local law. The court said the Park Service's prohibitions on the sale of the audiotapes and religious beads were permissible. "This vast expanse serves a multiple of purposes, none of them commercial," Circuit Judge James Buckley wrote in a 17-page ruling for the panel.

Still, he's thought about Donna almost every day. All it takes to stir him is to hear the name. In 1991, Kempton started search- Kempton even after hiring a California firm that specializes in finding people. His last shot was a call in mid-April to Hawaii clearinghouse coordinator Anne Clarkin. "It is a stretch," Clarkin said.

"There is no question that I would take this case. This is the worst thing that can happen to anyone." Now she plans to send the rendering to missing person agencies in California and Ohio. The image can be faxed or sent through the Internet. The new image was created by Glenn Miller, an age-progression specialist with the national clearinghouse. It took two days.

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FROM PAGE ONE which has recovered 19 children since it opened in January. But it's never tried to find someone missing this long. The woman in the rendering which was prepared by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Virginia has a mane of dark hair with a streak of gray. She looks like her older brother, the boy posing beside her in the old photograph. "She doesn't look familiar," Kempton said.

"Somehow, I always expected to see some resemblance to that person." He tapped the old photo. Here in his one-man machine shop beneath Bilger Hall, he chain-smokes cigarettes in the pale fluorescent light. A thin coil of smoke piled above him like a mushroom. At 73, nearly all his memories of Donna have drifted beyond some mental horizon. "I can't imagine her voice.

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