Battle Of Midway

Location


The Battle of Midway was located in the Pacific Ocean between the U.S and Japan

Who Against Who?


The Battle of Midway was against the United States and Japan.

What Lead To This Battle?

The Japanese hoped that another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the Pacific War and thus ensure Japanese dominance in the Pacific.

DETAILS ABOUT THIS BATTLE?

• The plan was to lure the U.S. aircraft carriers into a trap
• Japanese also intended to occupy midway in order to extend their defense perimeter.
• The plan was handicapped by faulty Japanese assumptions of the American reaction

Outcome of this battle?

After Midway & the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's ship building & pilot training programs were unable to keep pace in replacing their losses , while the U.S. steadily increased it's output in both areas.

Winner?

The United States

Significance?

Pearl Harbor was Japan advancing toward the U.S, so Midway was the U.S advancing towards Japan.

"We have been committed so long in the first finding the Japanese force, then this attack, it was of no use to tell a person he was comparatively 'low on fuel.' Sometimes radio silence helps."

-LT Clarence E. Dickinson