Pardon me if i have the incorrect Nomenclature for the groups of Torpedo-Bombers. But the two groups of planes, that first attacked the Japanese carriers at Midway, and were Just About All wiped out. Why did they not have any kind of USA Fighter Support.? Was that typical for the times.? It seems like the USA Carriers were not good at or did not do a good job of coordinating that kind of "Stuff" at Midway.? Thank You
This is been discussed in many of the books and articles on Midway so you should be able to find a number of discussions by searching VT-8 or VT-6 and fighter support. For example: VT-8 - Wikipedia It was more a series of errors, poor timing and unfortunate decisions rather than an official policy that led to the fighter escort being dispersed. But as noted VT-3 also suffered heavy losses with fighter escort. Attacking a battle fleet that had an active CAP while flying an obsolescent TBD was going to result in heavy losses no matter what, in my opinion. Editing to add that torpedo units in all theatres took high losses due to the method of attack (low and slow with very little if any evasion during the run in). Bad enough against aa fire throw in fighters and not a pretty picture. Look at the losses Beaufort units took during some of their attacks and they rarely ran into the amount of fighter cover the Japanese had at Midway. Dive bombers were easier to escort and had a better chance of survival though a torpedo hit was usally more lethal. Torpedo bomber crew was not a job for the faint hearted!
It's a very long book, but "Shattered Sword" covers the actions of VT-6 and VT-8 in detail, along with all the other actions of the Midway Campaign, or Operation MI as the IJN called it.
