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Welcome to true spies.

The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time. Suddenly out of the dark that's appeared in Laubman.

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

What do they know? What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

Vengeance felt good.

Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.

True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast. Episode 624,

The Battle of Midway comes to an end. Last time, though executed imperfectly, the dauntlesses

of Enterprise and Hornet doomed the hero, the last of the enemy carriers.

But Yamaguchi wasn't giving up yet, but more on that in a moment. By now, the Yorktown had been

abandoned with its 2,280 crewmen aboard various vessels. But Fletcher, like Yamaguchi, wasn't giving up either. He had sent a

message to Nimitz asking for a fleet tug to take Yorktown away to be repaired. For now, he would put a

repair crew together to work on her. As for the other two carriers and their escorts, it was time to head east, if only to avoid

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