A signalman—Flags Karetka—at battle stations on board a destroyer in what has been called the greatest sea battle of World War II kept notes as Japanese dive bombers attacked the aircraft carrier Yorktown —here, minutes after the first bomb detonated. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the battle, he recalls what he witnessed that day.

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