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04:30 First Japanese takeoff against Midway Islands; 04:30 10 planes (Yorktown) begin to search for the Japanese ships; 05:34 Japanese ships detected by a PBY from Midway I. 07:10 6 TBF Avengers and 4 USAAF B-26 (from Midway I.) attack; 07:15 Nagumo prepares reserve aircraft for second attack on Midway, in direct violation of Yamamoto's order
On 5 June, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, CINC of the Combined Fleet ordered CruDiv 7 to shell Midway Island in preparation for a Japanese landing. CruDiv 7 and DesDiv 8 were 410 miles (660 km) away from the island, so they made a high-speed dash at 35 knots (65 km/h). The sea was choppy and the destroyers lagged behind. At 2120, the order was canceled.
On 5 June, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, CINC of the Combined Fleet ordered Cruiser Division 7 to shell Midway Island in preparation for a Japanese landing. Cruiser Division 7 and DesDiv 8 were 410 miles (660 km) away from the island, so they made a high-speed dash at 35 knots (65 km/h). The sea was choppy and the destroyers lagged behind.
The Japanese navy aimed to take control of the U.S. patrol plane base in a surprise attack at Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands roughly halfway between the U.S. mainland and Asia.
The images were captured during a five-day study by a team of experts from Japan and the US near Midway Island earlier this month. Japanese warships sunk at Battle of Midway seen in new underwater ...
This is the order of battle for the Battle of Midway, a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, fought 4–7 June 1942 by naval and air forces of Imperial Japan and the United States in the waters around Midway Atoll in the far northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The Japanese had two purposes for the campaign: to occupy Midway for ...
The ship's severely wounded captain Sakiyama was lowered on the first life raft, closely followed by the ship's paymaster and air officers, who took with them the ship's important documents. The rafts were launched towards the direction of Arashio. Takashima remained in the ship's smoke-filled bridge, choosing to go down with the ship.
I-68, later renumbered I-168, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai–type cruiser submarine [1] of the KD6 sub-class commissioned in 1934. She served in World War II, operating in support of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and taking part in the Battle of Midway, the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Aleutian Islands campaign before she was sunk in 1943.