 The cutter drifted for 14 days before being discovered by a Catalina and rescued by the seaplane tender .Four men died of their wounds or exposure before being picked up and a fifth died that night.The loss of "Hiryū" and the three other IJN carriers at Midway, comprising two thirds of Japan's total number of fleet carriers and the experienced core of the First Air Fleet, was a strategic defeat for Japan and contributed significantly to Japan's ultimate defeat in the war.