 Over the following two days , first Midway and then Spruance 's carriers launched several strikes against the stragglers . Mikuma was eventually sunk by Dauntlesses , while Mogami survived further severe damage to return home for repairs . The destroyers Arashio and Asashio were also bombed and strafed during the last of these attacks . Captain Richard E. Fleming , a U.S. Marine Corps aviator , was killed while executing a glide bomb run on Mikuma and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor . 
