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The Battle of midway is all about the japanese army and the american army fighting each other at pearl harbor. The japanese army attacked first on american army, But american army was the one who won the war. Before the Battle of midway US had no idea about the japanese are going to attack them. US sank several japanese aircraft carriers greatly reducing Japan’s ability to impose its dominance over its newly conquered empire. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Admiral yamamoto isoroku, japanese fleet commander, chose to invade a target relatively close to Pearl to draw the American fleet, calculating that when the United States …show more content…

During the WWII, Battle of Midway, in pacific ocean US turned Japan attack to advantage, gave us advantage in pacific.Instead, an American intelligence breakthrough-the solving of the Japanese fleet codes-enabled Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to understand the exact Japanese plans. Nimitz placed available US carriers in position to surprise the japanese moving for their preparatory air strikes on midway island itself. The Battle of Midway was the first Japanese defeat in 360 years and changed the war tide making the United States an offensive front and pushing the Japanese Navy back. It was a Decisive American victory and it was the turning point of the war. The outcome of the Battle of Midway turned on Nagumo’s decision to change the armament carried by his planes to attack naval rather than land targets on Midway after an American carrier, presumably the Yorktown, was sighted. On the morning of June 4, 1942, American carrier planes attacked Nagumo’s …show more content…

The Americans had failed to mount a coordinated attack, and U.S. torpedo planes, attacking alone, were slaughtered. At the crucial moment, with the decks of the Japanese carriers full of rearming and fueled aircraft and fighter cover chasing the torpedo planes, American dive bombers attacked and destroyed Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu.Retaliatory strikes by Japanese planes from Hiryu crippled the Yorktown, and the carrier was later sunk by a Japanese submarine. Subsequently, Hiryu was sunk by American dive bombers.Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942, was the turning point of World War II in the South Pacific. Yamamoto’s plan was shattered, and the Imperial Japanese Navy never recovered from the loss of four frontline aircraft carriers and irreplaceable pilots and aircrews. Within a month of the Imperial japanese Navy’s surprise attack on the US pacific Fleet in pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of japan’s Combined Fleet, including aircraft carriers. On 14 january 1942, Yamamoto’s staff recommended attack on Midway, a defended American atoll 1,100 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor. Japanese planners assumed the US pacific Fleet would rush to the outpost’s aid , whereupon the more powerful combined Fleet would engage and destroy it. Such a victory could open the prospect of invading Hawaii, the

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