Midway : Powder River?

Powder River?

Why is a US pilot as he is attacking the Japanese carriers heard on the radio shouting "Powder River"?

Re: Powder River?

Don't know. But the Powder River is in Montana, and the region where Sioux chief Red Cloud defeated the US Army in Red Cloud's war, which included the Fetterman Massacre. Could be Navy code for an ambush, or a massacre.
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