What Happened on a Ship?

Diver describes the moment he saw three enemy planes plummeting towards his ship. He fell instinctively to the deck and crawled behind a command post mantlet. Lieutenant wilmer earle gallagher aimed at a huge rising sun about 50 feet across, painted in blood red on the flight deck. At about 18 hundred feet, he released his bomb, then pulled up into a steep climb and kicked the dauntless around. And he thought exultantly, arizona, i remember you. It would have seemed like this was the most exquisitely sweet sort of justice.