Battle Of Midway Research Papers

Introduction The Battle of Midway was between America’s and Japan’s Navy. It started on June 3, 1942 and ended on June 7, 1942 with America winning. Battle of Midway was one of America’s most decisive victories of the war. The American Intelligence was able to decode Japan’s naval code. With the naval code America was able to anticipate a surprise attack. The U.S. Naval forces were able to recognized the attack against the Alaska Islands and were able to mass the Japanese forces around Midway. On June 4, an advance Japanese squadron numbering more than 100 bombers and Zero fighters took off from the Japanese carriers to bomb Midway. In the meantime, 200 miles to the northeast, two U.S. attack fleets caught the Japanese force entirely by surprise.
Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto still had numerous warships at his command, but without his carriers and aircraft he was forced to abandon his Midway …show more content…
I will look into what allowed America to get the upper hand when they were clearly outnumbered by Japan. It will show what strategies were used to prepare for the attack. Also how America received the naval code used to predict the attack. “On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan–comes to an end”(Battle of Midway Ends History.com). America when fighting Japan in the Battle was completely outnumbered by a lot. The only way that they could win would be that they were able to prepare for the attack. Which was exactly what they did, they were able to get the naval code of Japan and decode. “Unfortunately for the Japanese, U.S. intelligence broke the Japanese naval code, and the Americans anticipated the surprise attack”(Battle of Midway Ends History.com). With them being able to anticipate the attack they were ready for anything that they were gonna do. There were multiple times that America notice and prevented attacks and