Battle of Midway : Industrial sequel
[548] [read-midway-11-148] Battle of Midway is the record of under “Industrial sequel.” The figure to read with it is 4. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. Pearl Harbor's 72-hour patch that put a third US carrier in the fight. Read as a 4-7 June 1942 concept in Midway Atoll, central Pacific.
The 4-7 June 1942 carrier battle that wrecked Japan's first-line carrier force and shifted the Pacific war. The Battle of Midway (4-7 June 1942) was a carrier duel in the central Pacific, six months after Pearl Harbor. Admiral Yamamoto sought to draw out and destroy the US Pacific Fleet by seizing Midway Atoll. Station HYPO in Hawaii had broken enough of the JN-25 system to know the objective -- the famous "AF" water-trap.
On 4 June, US dive bombers from Enterprise and Yorktown caught Japanese carriers with armed aircraft on deck. Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and, later, Hiryu were lost. Yorktown was crippled and sunk on 7 June. Japanese dead are usually given around 3,000; US dead a few hundred -- a lopsided butcher's bill for a few hours of dive-bombing.
Midway did not end the Pacific war; Guadalcanal and 1944 still lay ahead. It ended Japan's run of carrier initiative. English-language memory -- helped by the 1976 and 2019 films -- treats it as the Pacific's Stalingrad: a turn, not a finish. Korean readers should pair it with Tsushima (1905): two decisive naval days that recast who could project power in these waters.
Say Battle of Midway with , “Industrial sequel,” and 4. The figure is not a national score.4
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 4
- Figure in the record
- 4
- Action
- Battle of Midway
- Line of the front
- Industrial sequel
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