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USS Lexington at Midway
USS Lexington at Midway
Japan Overreaches
bigpigeon.us webpage WW II - Japan > Japan Overreaches ​> Midway, updated by RAC 7 Oct 2020.

Operation MI --> Battle of Midway - 4-7 June 1942
The Japanese Operation MI offensive had two components:
  • Attack and occupy the Midway Islands.
  • As a diversion, occupy the western Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska and attack US military facilities at Dutch Harbor to the east.
Wisely, the US chose not to contest the second component.

​With a combination of good intelligence, good luck, and personal courage, United States forces prevailed in the climatic Battle of Midway. Japan lost four large aircraft carriers to American dive bombers, while the United States lost the carrier Yorktown.
​
After their defeat at Midway, Japan cancelled Operation FI, the planned offensive to extend Japanese power further into the South Pacific.
June 1942 Japanese Naval Offensive
June 1942 Japanese Naval Operation MI
Forewarned of the coming Japanese attack on Midway, the United States had dispatched its carrier forces and added Army and Marine combat aircraft to the forces based on Midway.

I still need to edit the following timeline from https://sites.google.com/site/battleofmidwayorg/timeline

​June 4- 04:30 a.m. Bombing of midway takes place from Japanese
June 4-  American fighter aircraft takes heavy damge but makes Japan attack again
June 4- 07:28 a.m. Japanese recon plane spots undetermined USN ship 200 miles away
June 4- 07:52 a.m. USS Enterprise and Hornet launch bombers and torpedo planes
June 4- 08:20 a.m. A surprised Yamamoto recives a report about American carriers at sea
June 4- 08:37 a.m. Aircraft from 2nd wave of the Japanese start to return, to refuel and to rearm
June 4- 09:00 a.m. USS Yorktown launches attack on Japanese carrier force as a main target
June 4- 09:18 a.m. Yamamoto learns of the attack and changes course
June 4- 09:30 a.m.  First wave of torpedo planes begin their attack on Japanese
June 4- 10:00 a.m. First wave of planes are shot down and atack is over
June 4- 10:25 a.m. Follow up wave finds Japanese carriers while aircraft are refuling and trying to get rearmed
June 4- 11:00 a.m. Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi are struck with bombs and are sunk
June 4- 12:00 p.m Hiryu launches a conter attack on USS Yorktown 
June 4- 02:30 p.m. USS Yorktown is hit by three bombs.
June 4 - 4:20 p.m. USS Yorktown is hit by two aerial torpedoes.
June 4- 03:00 p.m. Crew abandon USS Yorktown and is in tow
June 4- 05:00 p.m. Bombing raids against Hiryu are successful and the ship sinks
June 6- 03:40 p.m. USS Yorktown is in tow w/ USS Hamman alongside. Yorktown is hit by two submarine torpedoes; Hamman by one torpedo, explodes and sinks.
June 7 - 07:00 a.m. USS Yorktown sinks.
Sources for the Midway webpage:
  • The page header photo, USS Enterprise at Midway, courtesy of theatlantic.com, shows the preparation of Torpedo Squadron VT-6 for their fatal flight. Of the 41 planes of the three torpedo squadrons that flew from American carriers at Midway, only six returned.
  • The June 1942 Japanese Naval Operation MI is courtesy of pinterest.com

​Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - Midway:
  • Taken from the bigpigeon.us WW II Dead webarea.
† Decker, Richard Charles, SN 17-017-220, USAAF, Pott. Co.
  • Detachment, 69th Bomb. Sqdn., 38th Bomb. Gp., based at Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii Territory & deployed to Midway Is., Hawaii Territory 29 May 1942; Martin B-26B Marauder #41-17570 nose gunner; KIA 4 Jun 1942 off Midway Is.; low-level torpedo attack by four Marauders on Japanese fleet, two planes lost without survivors, remaining planes damaged; Japan Overreaches > Battle of Midway; BNR.
† Mowrey, Robert Edward, also served as Mowery, Robert E, SN 308610, USMC Aviation, Pott. Co.
  • Marine Air Fighter Sqdn. VMF-221, Marine Air Group 22, 2nd Marine Air Wing; KIA 4 Jun 1942 Midway Is., Hawaii Territory; direct hit on aircraft rearming station during air attack; Japan Overreaches > Battle of Midway.
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