Yorktown Damage Assessment at Coral Sea and Midway with Brian Perry

Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall — co-author of Shattered Sword — bring on Brian Perry for a forensic look at exactly what happened to USS Yorktown at Coral Sea and whether that damage actually degraded her performance at Midway. They bust the Pearl Harbor drydock rush-repair mythology along the way, then get into the specific bomb and torpedo hits at Midway. At 90 minutes this is deep in the weeds of damage control, structural engineering and carrier vulnerability — exactly the kind of technical naval history this show does best.