Liked it a lot. His descriptions of our planes and tactics at this stage of the war, IMO, show how brave these guys were. It wasn't unusual to lose a few planes and pilots on a "routine" mission before they even get to the battle of Midway.
His conversation with his friend assigned to the dive bomber squadron, Torpedo Six, on the morning of the Battle of Midway was impressive. They were to be using planes that were so inadequate everyone was not only surprised they were using them but how they were using them. I might be wrong but based on what I read those guys didn't really comment on it, just got in the planes knowing they were likely to be killed, did their job and got killed. When they left Kleiss stated, "It was a gut-wrenching goodbye. I knew this was likely farewell forever."
Reading that part of the book was chilling. To realize that Torpedo Squadron 6 was practically in what was a kamikaze attack with extremely unreliable torpedoes.
