I would like to fine out about my cousion who died in wwll, was a Navy torpedo at midway and other Battle. Plane shot down, sometime in 45, just short of end of war. Ned Brown, from Idaho Falls, iD.
In early June 1942 the battle at Midway marked a significant change in World War II in the Pacific. Just west of Midway, the US Navy attacked and sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and lost one of their own.
In total, there were actually 9 aircraft carriers that participated in the Battle of Midway. American: Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown. Japanese: Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu, Zuiho, Hosho Additionally, as the Midway battle was occurring, the Japanese carriers Ryujo and Junyo were part of a northern force that was attacking the Aleutian Islands as a diversion.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, history's first clash of aircraft carriers; the Battle of Midway, history's first DECISIVE clash of aircraft carriers.
The Battle of Midway, on June 4, 1942.
Aircraft carriers carrying Japanese Reisens, Zeros, and American Hellcats, etc.
Midway...
Japanese battlewagons were present only at a distance; Midway was a battle between aircraft carriers.
The cost to the Imperial Japanese Navy at the battle of Midway were 4 of her best aircraft carriers(The Akagi-the Kaga-the Hiryu and the Soryu),countless numbers of fighters-level bombers-dive bombers and torpedo bombers that attacked the U.S. Navy and Marine in and around the island of Midway.
Battle of Midway US naval aircraft sank the four Japanese aircraft carriers that were supporting the invasion force.
Fleet Aircraft Carriers. (Fleet Carriers are a navy's largest carrier).
Four IJN and one USN.
The Japanese lost 4 of their aircraft carriers.
The Japanese lost 4 of their aircraft carriers.
The Japanese lost all four aircraft carriers of their Strike Force at Midway..Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu. They were four of the six carriers which had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In early June 1942 the battle at Midway marked a significant change in World War II in the Pacific. Just west of Midway, the US Navy attacked and sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and lost one of their own.
Japan just lost four aircraft carriers with some of the best carrier dive bomber, torpedo bomber, and fighter airmen in the world. They could not be replaced (in time).
Destroyers, Cruisers and Aircraft Carriers