USS Midway Museum

This guide to the USS Midway Museum in San Diego turns on the last day of April 1975, when a South Vietnamese pilot named Major Buang-Ly banked a tiny two-seat Cessna over the carrier's flight deck with his wife and five children crammed inside, and found no room to land. It follows the notes he dropped toward the deck and the decision facing Captain Lawrence Chambers, the first Black officer ever to command a US aircraft carrier, as helicopters worth millions sat in the way. Stand on that same deck and listen for what Chambers chose to do next.