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- The battle of Midway started in 1942
- Kondos invasion force, which they mistakenly assumed was the main Japanese fleet. This unsuccessful attack marked the first military engagement in the battle of midway
- The battle of midway was an epic clash between the U.S. navy and the Japanese navy
- After a diversonary attack by a smaller japanese force on the aletuian islands Yamamoto planed a three pronged aprouch toward midway.
- Hoping to replicate the success of the pearl harbor attack, yamamoto decided to seek out and crush the rest of the U.S. pacific fleet.
- An air attack on the island launched from four first-line Japanese aircraft carriers, the akagi, kaga, hiryu and soryu.
- Japans efforts to establish clear naval and air superiority in the western Pacific first hit a snag in the battle of coral sea in may, 1942.
- The first Japanese attack ended at 7am leaving the airfeild still useable and U.S. anti-aircraft defenses still functioning.
- With Japans fleet so widely dispersed, Yamamoto had to transmit all strategy over radio enabling navy cryptanalysts based in Hawii
- Shortly after that just as his pilots informed Nagumo that another airstrike aiganst there base would be necessary U.S. aircrafts launched from midway began attacking the four Japanese carrers without success
- As a result of the U.S. victory in the battle of midway, Japan abandoned its plan to expand its reach in the Pacific and would remain on the defensive for the remainder of WW II.
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