Effect of the Battle of Midway
when the U.S won the battle of midway is showed everyone
how advanced we are. It gave us a advantage
over everyone. It was a large turning point in
not only word war 2 but in all of time it put us ahead
in war aspects.
On 7 December 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack
on the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In little more than an
hour, the Pacific Fleet was decimated and the Japanese fleet sailed home
victorious. The Japanese went on to conquer a large proportion of Southeast Asia
and the southern Pacific Ocean in their bid to guarantee access to raw materials
for their expanding economy and to create a defensive perimeter against any
Allied counterattack. Victory after victory followed, with the fall of Hong
Kong, Singapore, wakeisland , Guam, Bataan, Corregidor, the
Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Solomon Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marshall
Islands and much of New Guinea as the Japanese out-thought and out-fought the
Allies on land, sea and in the air. In January 1942, the Americans came up with
an idea of a diversionary raid on Japan using B-25 Mitchell bombers which would
fly off US Navy carriers and then attempt to fly to friendly held areas of
China. The raid proceeded (as a morale boosting measure more than anything else)
and on 18 April 1942 the B-25s hit Tokyo, Kobe, Nagoya and Osaka, from the
carrier USS Hornet. The material damage inflicted was minimal, however,
the raid's real impact was psychological. Japan itself was outraged at the
attack and the loss of face suffered by the Imperial Navy considerable. As Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet lamented,
'One has the embarrassing feeling of having been caught napping just when one
was feeling confident and in charge of things.' Even though the raid was
ridiculed as the 'do-nothing or do-little' raid, it ended the irresolution of
Japan's Naval General Staff about when exactly to finalise and implement the
timetable for Operation MI. On 5th May, Admiral Osami Nagano, Chief of the Naval
General Staff, issued Imperial General Headquarters (IGHQ) Naval Order No. 18
instructing Yamamoto to occupy Midway Island and parts of the western Aleutians.
The consequences were to be incalculable.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_midwaylong.html
how advanced we are. It gave us a advantage
over everyone. It was a large turning point in
not only word war 2 but in all of time it put us ahead
in war aspects.
On 7 December 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack
on the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In little more than an
hour, the Pacific Fleet was decimated and the Japanese fleet sailed home
victorious. The Japanese went on to conquer a large proportion of Southeast Asia
and the southern Pacific Ocean in their bid to guarantee access to raw materials
for their expanding economy and to create a defensive perimeter against any
Allied counterattack. Victory after victory followed, with the fall of Hong
Kong, Singapore, wakeisland , Guam, Bataan, Corregidor, the
Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Solomon Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marshall
Islands and much of New Guinea as the Japanese out-thought and out-fought the
Allies on land, sea and in the air. In January 1942, the Americans came up with
an idea of a diversionary raid on Japan using B-25 Mitchell bombers which would
fly off US Navy carriers and then attempt to fly to friendly held areas of
China. The raid proceeded (as a morale boosting measure more than anything else)
and on 18 April 1942 the B-25s hit Tokyo, Kobe, Nagoya and Osaka, from the
carrier USS Hornet. The material damage inflicted was minimal, however,
the raid's real impact was psychological. Japan itself was outraged at the
attack and the loss of face suffered by the Imperial Navy considerable. As Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet lamented,
'One has the embarrassing feeling of having been caught napping just when one
was feeling confident and in charge of things.' Even though the raid was
ridiculed as the 'do-nothing or do-little' raid, it ended the irresolution of
Japan's Naval General Staff about when exactly to finalise and implement the
timetable for Operation MI. On 5th May, Admiral Osami Nagano, Chief of the Naval
General Staff, issued Imperial General Headquarters (IGHQ) Naval Order No. 18
instructing Yamamoto to occupy Midway Island and parts of the western Aleutians.
The consequences were to be incalculable.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_midwaylong.html