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Bookmark or Share- The Battle of Midway | The National WWII Museum | New OrleansOver the next two days, the US troops at sea and on Midway continued their attacks, forcing the Japanese to abandon the battle and retreat. The Japanese lost approximately 3,057 men, four carriers, one cruiser, and hundreds of aircraft, while the United States lost approximately 362 men, one carrier, one destroyer, and 144 aircraft.
- The Battle of Coral Sea: A RetrospectiveThey were to be returned as soon as Operation ‘MO’ was completed, so they could participate in the Midway operation as well. Japanese warships began sortieing from Truk on 30 April. Unknown to the Japanese, American codebreakers had broken Japan’s main operational cipher, JN-25b, and had become aware of the outline of Japanese intentions ...
- Computer Degenerated: A Review of Midway (2019) | The National WWII ...The Midway battle sequence isn’t so much a climax as a relief. I guess Emmerich felt that Americans simply don’t know enough about the war in the Pacific to dispense with all these preliminaries. Maybe he’s right, but the result is a by-the-numbers slog through selected episodes in the early months of the war that has all the charm of a ...
- Norman “Dusty” Kleiss, Scouting Squadron 6Norman “Dusty” Kleiss describes his attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga on 4 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway.
- First Strike at Midway: Attacking and Discovering IJN KagaKaga, the first Japanese carrier hit at Midway, was the prime target, but even he was unable to locate her final resting place. In 1999 a team from the undersea exploration group Nauticos found pieces of Kaga’s wreckage, a portion of her hull and anti-aircraft batteries, but not the main ship.
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