Battle of Midway - Wikipedia
Battle of Midway - Wikipedia
Battle of Midway - Wikipedia
Strength
Background
Aleutian invasion …
Prelude
American reinforcements …
US code-breaking …
Battle
Order of battle …
07:10 6 TBF Avengers and 4 USAAF B-26 (from Midway I.) attack
11:30 10 planes (Yorktown) take off to search for remaining Japanese ships
13:30 Hiryū detected by a Yorktown plane; 24 dive bombers take off against Hiryū (Spruance)
5 June
Nagumo's dilemma …
Japanese counterattacks …
American counterattack …
Aftermath
A rescued U.S. airman on Midway
American prisoners …
Japanese prisoners …
Impact
Remembrances
Movies …
The following is the list of the movies
dealing with the Midway battle or
portraying the act of battle as the crucial
moment of the film's plot:
Other …
See also
First Bombardment of Midway, a 7
December 1941 attack on Midway by
two Japanese destroyers
Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
WWII carrier-versus-carrier
engagements between American and
Japanese naval forces:
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Battle off Cape Engaño
Footnotes
1. The Kidō Butai ( 機動部隊, "Mobile
Unit/Force") was the Combined Fleet's
tactical designation for its carrier
battle group. This title was used as a
term of convenience and was not a
formal name for the organization. One
month after Midway, the Kidō Butai
was disbanded and its surviving ships
were transferred to Third Fleet.
2. The code names "Val", "Kate" and
"Zeke", which are often applied to
these aircraft, were not introduced
until late 1943 by the Allied forces. The
D3A was normally referred to by the
Japanese as Type 99 Navy dive
bomber, the B5N as the Type 97 Navy
torpedo bomber and the A6M as the
Type 0 Navy fighter; the latter was
colloquially known as the "Zero".[44]
3. Other sources claim a stern hit, but
Parshall and Tully make a case for a
near miss, because of rudder damage
from a high explosive bomb.[117]
4. Parshall and Tully argue that even if
Kaga had been towed back to Japan,
the permanent structural damage
caused by the inferno onboard would
likely have made the carrier unusable
for anything except scrapping.[123]
5. Japanese casualty figures for the
battle were compiled by Sawaichi
Hisae for her book Midowei Kaisen:
Kiroku p. 550: the list was compiled
from Japanese prefectural records
and is the most accurate to date.[5]
. Pre-war Japan was less mechanized
than America and the highly trained
aircraft mechanics, fitters and
technicians lost at Midway were all but
impossible to replace and train to a
similar level of efficiency. In contrast,
the extensive use of machinery in the
United States meant that a much
larger portion of the population had a
mechanical/technical background.[185]
7. Shinano, commissioned on 19
November 1944, was only the fourth
fleet carrier commissioned by Japan
during the war, after Taihō, Unryū, and
Amagi.[191]
Notes …
References
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Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony
(2005). Shattered Sword: The Untold
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923-0.
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Further reading
Evans, David; Peattie, Mark R. (1997).
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology
in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–
1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval
Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
Fuchida, Mitsuo; Masatake Okumiya
(1955). Midway: The Battle that Doomed
Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story.
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute
Press. ISBN 0-87021-372-5. A Japanese
account; numerous assertions in this
work have been challenged by more
recent sources.
Hanson, Victor D. (2001). Carnage and
Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of
Western Power . New York: Doubleday.
ISBN 0-385-50052-1.
Hara, Tameichi (1961). Japanese
Destroyer Captain. New York: Ballantine
Books. ISBN 0-345-27894-1. First-hand
account by Japanese captain, often
inaccurate.
Holmes, W. (1979). Double-Edged
Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence
Operations in the Pacific During World
War II (Bluejacket Books). Annapolis,
Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-
55750-324-9.
Kahn, David. The Codebreakers: The
Comprehensive History of Secret
Communication from Ancient Times to
the Internet. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-
684-83130-9. Significant section on
Midway
Kernan, Alvin (2005). The Unknown
Battle of Midway . New Haven,
Connecticut: Yale University Press.
ISBN 0-300-10989-X. An account of the
blunders that led to the near total
destruction of the American torpedo
squadrons, and of what the author calls
a cover-up by naval officers after the
battle.
Layton, Edwin T. (1985). And I Was
There: Pearl Harbor and Midway . New
York: W. Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-04883-
9.
Peattie, Mark R. (2007). Sunburst: The
Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909–
1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval
Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-664-
3.
Smith, Douglas V. (2006). Carrier Battles:
Command Decision in Harm's Way.
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute
Press. ISBN 1-59114-794-8.
Smith, Peter C. (2007). Midway
Dauntless Victory; Fresh perspectives on
America's Seminal Naval Victory of 1942.
Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Maritime.
ISBN 978-1-84415-583-5. Detailed study
of battle, from planning to the effects on
World War II
Stephan, John J. (1984). Hawaii Under
the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for
Conquest after Pearl Harbor. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-
2550-0.
Stille, Mark (2007). USN Carriers vs IJN
Carriers: The Pacific 1942. New York:
Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-248-6.
Willmott, H. P. (2004). The Second World
War in the Far East. Smithsonian History
of Warfare. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Books. p. 240. ISBN 1-
58834-192-5.
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