Реферат: BATTLE AT MIDWAY Essay Research Paper Battle

Island. Anti-aircraft guns fired but the dive-bombers kept coming and coming. Even

though Midway Island was covered with smoke and flames from the bombing, that didn’t

stop the U.S., they were still launching planes from runways. The American planes that

had taken off from Midway had spotted the Japanese fleet. Four Marauders and six

Avengers started the attack, but they were meet by the Zeros that were left to guard the

fleet. Three planes were blasted right out of the sky, and four more hit by anti-aircraft

guns aboard the carriers and battleships. Three planes made it through the hail of gun fire

and swept down toward the deck of the Akagi to unload their payload of bombs and

torpedos. The Akagi moved to avoid the bombs and succeeded none of the bonbs or

torpedos hit.

Right after this attack Admiral Nagumo received a message saying that the

American fleet had been spotted 240 miles north from Midway heading toward the battle.

Admiral Nagumo refused to believed the message and ordered for the ships to be

identified. When the message came back it said that the fleet consisted of five destroyers

and 5 curisers. Without a break he heard the sound of plane engines and sure enough there

was a squadron of B-17’s, 15 planes to be exact. They were unloading their bombs from

20,000 feet. too high to be shot down by anti-aircraft guns. A safe place to unload bombs,

but not a single one hit its target of a Japanese ship.

The Japanese ordered all planes back to refuel. One American pilot said “Its a

shame to just let sit there like that”. Admiral Spruance shared the same thoughts. He

ordered all available aircraft to be launched. A few hours later even more planes were

launched. The Japanese ships had changed direction and only one squadron went a

different direction and was right the Japanese fleet was there. Right as they arrived they

were meet by about 30 Zeros. Only one plane made it through the attack. As it made it’s

way toward the ships it was suddenly joined by more planes. They all missed their targets ,

but on the second pass they hit a ship a the planes explode. This was when the Japanese

relised that they weren’t going to get tha U.S. in to a ground attack.

The Japanese lost just about all of their ships. Afraid that two of the badly

damaged ships the Akagi and the Hiryu would be captured and put into a musuem in San