I would like to start a “Battle of Midway” group build I
would like to start it on the date it happened June 4th ending date
June 7th of 2007 that gives a year to get things rolling. What I
would like to see is all aspects of the time ie. Ships,planes and so on.
Any scale
Please email me klum_sy@valornet.com
if you are interested, I’m new at this so bare with me I want to compile a
database with builds and info that all may have. We all know about torpedo 8
squadron but what about torpedo 6 off the Hornet? Dig deep, have fun and lets
learn some history. Again I’m new at this so this maybe the wrong way about
going, but I gotta try. Depending on the response I will try and come up with a
cool GB sig.
Please feel free to elaborate and input, I am open to all
suggestions.
Thanks guys,
Scott
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This might get the fires cooking...
Battle of Midway, 4-7 June 1942 --
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at
Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean
war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the
United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway,
the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took
the offensive.
Japanese Combined Fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
moved on Midway in an effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet's
aircraft carrier striking forces, which had embarassed the Japanese Navy in the
mid-April Doolittle Raid on Japan's home
islands and at the Battle of Coral Sea in
early May. He planned to quickly knock down Midway's defenses, follow up with an
invasion of the atoll's two small islands and establish a Japanese air base
there. He expected the U.S. carriers to come out and fight, but to arrive too
late to save Midway and in insufficient strength to avoid defeat by his own
well-tested carrier air power.
Yamamoto's intended surprise was thwarted by superior American communications
intelligence, which deduced his scheme well before battle was joined. This
allowed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, to
establish an ambush by having his carriers ready and waiting for the Japanese.
On 4 June 1942, in the second of the Pacific War's great carrier battles, the
trap was sprung. The perserverance, sacrifice and skill of U.S. Navy aviators,
plus a great deal of good luck on the American side, cost Japan four
irreplaceable fleet carriers, while only one of the three U.S. carriers present
was lost. The base at Midway, though damaged by Japanese air attack, remained
operational and later became a vital component in the American trans-Pacific
offensive