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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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.
With the exception of the Battle of Midway, ShÅkaku and Zuikaku participated in every major naval action of the Pacific War, including the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Indian Ocean Raid, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Guadalcanal Campaign. Both carriers were sunk during the 1944 Pacific campaigns.
During World War II she participated in the Battle of Sunda Strait in February 1942 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942, and was sunk the last day of the latter engagement, on 6 June. The ship was named after the Mikuma river in Oita prefecture, Japan.
Pages in category "Ships of the Battle of Midway" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... Japanese submarine I-121; Japanese submarine I-122;
The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers (2nd ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-316-4. Fuchida, Mitsuo; Okumiya, Masatake (1955). Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan: The Japanese Navy's Story. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. OCLC 565962619.
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
One of only two Japanese submarines to make contact with enemy forces during the Battle of Midway and the only one to inflict damage, [16] [note 1] I-168 sank the only two ships the U.S. Navy lost during the battle, and at the time Yorktown was the largest ship sunk by a submarine during the Pacific campaign of World War II. [3]