The Factors Contributing to the Victory at Midway
The Battle of Midway was key victory for the United States in the Pacific. This battle had many challenges, but a great amount of luck and good leadership and strategy contributed to the victory that destroyed a large number of Japanese military forces and weakened the Japanese Navy. This enabled the United States to island hop toward the Japanese mainland and enclose on their conquered empire, leading to a surrender and eventually the end of World War II. The United States was drawn into the Pacific on December 7, 1941, after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States recovered the best they could and mobilized their naval fleet and planes for war. On April 18, …show more content…
The Japanese had a few damaged ships that they decided not to use. They could have rigged those ships to be battle capable, but they did not. The Japanese already had numbers and a technological advantage on their side, so if they had used their damaged ships and jerry rigged them their odds of winning the battle would have drastically increased. The Japanese had two carriers that had lost about half of their planes, so they decided not to use those ships. If the Japanese had used one of those carriers and combined the planes from both of them to be used in the attack then that could have played a crucial role for the Japanese. The United States was lucky in the fact that the Japanese had a strict policy of not combining the different flight squadrons of different carriers together. This policy hurt the Japanese and decreased their numbers and strength during the Battle of Midway, and helped give the United States a …show more content…
Without both of these factors the Battle of Midway would probably not have ended the way it did in an American victory. Despite the Japanese having stronger numbers coming into the battle they suffered much heavier losses. The Japanese lost four carriers, a heavy cruiser, two-hundred-forty-eight aircraft, and other partial damages to ships. They had three-thousand-fifty-seven casualties in the battle, while the United States had three-hundred-seven casualties, only about ten percent of Japan’s casualties, and the United States only lost one carrier, one destroyer, and about one-hundred-fifty aircraft. These losses could have been much greater or potentially even greater than the Japanese if it had not been for the leadership that developed a strategy that took advantage of the opportunities presented through the lucky breaks that the United States
The Battle of Midway was key victory for the United States in the Pacific. This battle had many challenges, but a great amount of luck and good leadership and strategy contributed to the victory that destroyed a large number of Japanese military forces and weakened the Japanese Navy. This enabled the United States to island hop toward the Japanese mainland and enclose on their conquered empire, leading to a surrender and eventually the end of World War II. The United States was drawn into the Pacific on December 7, 1941, after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States recovered the best they could and mobilized their naval fleet and planes for war. On April 18, …show more content…
The Japanese had a few damaged ships that they decided not to use. They could have rigged those ships to be battle capable, but they did not. The Japanese already had numbers and a technological advantage on their side, so if they had used their damaged ships and jerry rigged them their odds of winning the battle would have drastically increased. The Japanese had two carriers that had lost about half of their planes, so they decided not to use those ships. If the Japanese had used one of those carriers and combined the planes from both of them to be used in the attack then that could have played a crucial role for the Japanese. The United States was lucky in the fact that the Japanese had a strict policy of not combining the different flight squadrons of different carriers together. This policy hurt the Japanese and decreased their numbers and strength during the Battle of Midway, and helped give the United States a …show more content…
Without both of these factors the Battle of Midway would probably not have ended the way it did in an American victory. Despite the Japanese having stronger numbers coming into the battle they suffered much heavier losses. The Japanese lost four carriers, a heavy cruiser, two-hundred-forty-eight aircraft, and other partial damages to ships. They had three-thousand-fifty-seven casualties in the battle, while the United States had three-hundred-seven casualties, only about ten percent of Japan’s casualties, and the United States only lost one carrier, one destroyer, and about one-hundred-fifty aircraft. These losses could have been much greater or potentially even greater than the Japanese if it had not been for the leadership that developed a strategy that took advantage of the opportunities presented through the lucky breaks that the United States