The keyto buta is the mobile strike force that hit pearl harbor. The pilots who would have been getting altitude off the flight deck of the hereyou would have had an amazing historical, literally birds eye view of history. There are, according to francis pike in herohitos war, sailors on the yorktown who see these japanese planes, and these pilots who are attacking the y Yorktown are shaking their fists at them from the cockpit. In one of the ironies of this whole battle, the damaged control people on the Yorkshpt look like they've got real experience.