Battle of midway

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1. The Battle of Midway Island Presented by Claire Cappelle

2. Midway Island

3. Back Story Previous battle: The Battle of Coral Sea (American Victory) Yorktown Aircraft damaged from previous battle Commander-in-Chief (Japan): Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Commander-in-Chief (USA): Admiral Chester W Nimitz

4. Before the Battle Japan Wanted to Capture Midway Island as a base for taking the rest of the Pacific Islands Planned to take Midway on June 3 Wanted to meet at Midway to destroy US Fleet War Planners Careless United States US Naval Officers found out Japanese were planning to bomb Midway Island Adm Nimitz carefully planned planes carefully according to the code that was broken Force led by Rear Admiral Raymon Sprunace

5. A fighter plane in the midst of the Battle of Midway

6. Information Task Force 16 led by the Enterprise left on May 28 Japan had 6 aircraft carriers, 11 battle ships, 13 cruisers and 45 destroyers US had ¼ supplies of Japanese Aircrafts (US) USS Enterprise USS Hornet USS Yorktown (Damaged from previous battle)

7. Morning of June 4 USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, and USS Yorktown main aircrafts, led by USS Enterprise Japanese launches air attack with 108 planes US saw planes on Radar & went into position US failed on brutal Japanese attack Japanese destroyed most American torpedoes Skies became very dark because of constant shooting

8. USS Yorktown is being attacked by a Japanese torpedo.

9. Afternoon Japanese destroyed USS Yorktown but Nimitz places the rest of the ships correctly Skies were set up for American dive-bombers American aircraft caught Hiryu and damaged it 3 main flyers dropped bombs and torpedoes on 3 of four Japanese carriers Within 5 minutes US killed 3 of 4 Japanese ships

10. VT-8 TBF at Midway Island

11. After Five Minutes… All Japanese torpedoes shot Japan lost ½ of its carrier force Japanese greatly damaged Midway, but could not capture the field Japanese lost its frontline aviators and 250 aircraft Japanese retreated and reversed the tide of the war: Japan was on the defense

12. Battle of Midway Memorial

13. The Importance of the Battle of Midway Japanese code broken Displayed that the USA could win something Proved the stamina of the USA Japan could not advance further

14. Midway Island Today

15. Significance of World War II Japan was now on the defensive side Japan’s best naval officers were wiped out Japan was not able to advance anymore USA was the one who Japan watched out for

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