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The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway. By James Tann Matt Aunald and Meknie Dean. What and where was the battle of midway?.

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The Battle of Midway

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  1. The Battle of Midway By James Tann Matt Aunald and Meknie Dean

  2. What and where was the battle of midway? • The Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942, must be considered one of the most decisive battles of World War Two. The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway and it was on the defensive after this battle. • the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.

  3. info • The Battle of Midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and • Imperial Japanese Navy's six large aircraft carriers, operating over 400 aircraft, had rampaged decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." • After their success at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the around the Pacific, sinking British warships in the Indian Ocean and hammering Darwin in Northern Australia. • They were finally halted in early May 1942 at the Battle of Coral Sea, when two of them were damaged in an inconclusive battle with American carriers. By this stage of the war the whole force was exhausted, and desperately needed a refit. • But the American 'Doolittle' raid, a propaganda air attack on Tokyo launched from the carrier USS Hornet, prompted Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to plan a final showdown with the remnants of the American fleet before letting his forces rest. The raid had been an insult - it had threatened the life of the emperor. • The raid ... had threatened the life of the emperor. • Confident that he had the advantage in numbers and quality, Yamamoto wanted to destroy the American carrier fleet. He planned to confuse the enemy with a diversionary attack on the Alaskan coast, drawing the Americans north, only to launch his main attack on Midway Island the following day, which would see the Americans hurrying south, into an ambush. • The focal point of his plan, the aptly named Midway Island, was used as an Allied air base, halfway across the Pacific, some 1900km (1,200 miles) west of Hawaii.

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