The Battle of Midway What is it?
The Battle of Midway occurred near the central pacific island of Midway from 4-7 of June 1942. It is considered the decisive battle of the war in the pacific. Prior to this battle, Japan had managed to successfully capture territory throughout Asia and the Pacific. The next step for japan was to capture the island of Midway in order to use it as an advance base as well as destroying the US Pacific Fleet. But because of communication intelligence successes, the U.S fleet was able to launch an ambush on the Japanese sinking 4 carriers that had attacked Perl Harbour only 6 months earlier.
Who and what was involved?
As previously stated, the Battle of Midway was a naval battle between the Japanese and the …show more content…
Although his plan was ingenious, it was far too complex and the biggest problem was that Nimitz already knew his course of action and had ships waiting for the Japanese to arrive. Yamamoto’s plan could clearly not work if the Americans were already one step ahead. In the morning of June 4, one hundred and sixteen Japanese carrier aircraft launched an attack on Midway Island doing severe damage. During this attack, Midway launched all aircraft on the island to fire torpedos at the main carrier fleet that is made up of the four carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbour earlier. This fleet was attacked by five waves of bombers from Midway but no bombs or torpedos hit and many of the US aircraft were shot down. The following attack was later that day where a squadron of dive bombers was launched from US carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. The dive bombers were able to do quite severe damage to three of Japan’s four carriers but the remaining carrier Hiyru sent a squadron of torpedo bombers to attack Yorktown twice and it withstood both attacks. Not long after, Hiyru was damaged by US dive bombers. On June 5, all four Japanese carriers sunk and Yorktown was getting towed to Pearl Harbour when a Japanese submarine surfaced near and fired three torpedoes hitting both Yorktown and the Ship towing it. The ship sank that same day. Two days later on June 7, Yorktown finally rolled over sank to the bottom of the ocean signalling end of The Battle of
The Battle of Midway occurred near the central pacific island of Midway from 4-7 of June 1942. It is considered the decisive battle of the war in the pacific. Prior to this battle, Japan had managed to successfully capture territory throughout Asia and the Pacific. The next step for japan was to capture the island of Midway in order to use it as an advance base as well as destroying the US Pacific Fleet. But because of communication intelligence successes, the U.S fleet was able to launch an ambush on the Japanese sinking 4 carriers that had attacked Perl Harbour only 6 months earlier.
Who and what was involved?
As previously stated, the Battle of Midway was a naval battle between the Japanese and the …show more content…
Although his plan was ingenious, it was far too complex and the biggest problem was that Nimitz already knew his course of action and had ships waiting for the Japanese to arrive. Yamamoto’s plan could clearly not work if the Americans were already one step ahead. In the morning of June 4, one hundred and sixteen Japanese carrier aircraft launched an attack on Midway Island doing severe damage. During this attack, Midway launched all aircraft on the island to fire torpedos at the main carrier fleet that is made up of the four carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbour earlier. This fleet was attacked by five waves of bombers from Midway but no bombs or torpedos hit and many of the US aircraft were shot down. The following attack was later that day where a squadron of dive bombers was launched from US carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. The dive bombers were able to do quite severe damage to three of Japan’s four carriers but the remaining carrier Hiyru sent a squadron of torpedo bombers to attack Yorktown twice and it withstood both attacks. Not long after, Hiyru was damaged by US dive bombers. On June 5, all four Japanese carriers sunk and Yorktown was getting towed to Pearl Harbour when a Japanese submarine surfaced near and fired three torpedoes hitting both Yorktown and the Ship towing it. The ship sank that same day. Two days later on June 7, Yorktown finally rolled over sank to the bottom of the ocean signalling end of The Battle of