McClusky's Enterprise dive bombers and Leslie's Yorktown group found the carriers in a brief, decisive window. Hiryu's counterstrike fatally wounded Yorktown. US aircraft then found Hiryu. The Japanese surface fleet never got its night battle.
Airmen and sailors, not battleships, had decided a fleet action -- a doctrinal shock for both navies' older officers. Japan could still win local fights; it could not replace those four air groups quickly. The US could replace Yorktown and more. That industrial sentence is the rest of the Pacific war in miniature.
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McClusky's Enterprise dive bombers and Leslie's Yorktown group found the carriers in a brief, decisive window. Hiryu's counterstrike fatally wounded Yorktown. US aircraft then found Hiryu. The Japanese surface fleet never got its night battle.
Airmen and sailors, not battleships, had decided a fleet action -- a doctrinal shock for both navies' older officers. Japan could still win local fights; it could not replace those four air groups quickly. The US could replace Yorktown and more. That industrial sentence is the rest of the Pacific war in miniature.
After the turn stays dated: 1942-06-04-am (Midway strike) in Midway Atoll, central Pacific. Raymond A. Spruance (TF 16) is a named witness -- Took the fight when Halsey was ill; later the cautious-or-wise debate of US naval memory. Cost band: about 3,000 Japanese and about 300+ US dead, usual published band. Encyclopedia, not a method.
Midway was an intelligence success that still had to be converted by dive bombers -- and by luck of timing that historians still argue about. A 1942 Pacific hinge that belongs beside Tsushima, the wider Second World War, and later carrier history.
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