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On June 4th 1942 the Japanese Navy launched what Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, its commanding officer, hoped would be a decisively successful assault on the Midway Atoll and the US Pacific Fleet in the area with four Aircraft Carriers, nine Battleships, eleven Cruisers and thirty-two Destroyers. ... Why then is the Battle of Midway often referred to as a turning point´? ... Midway was not the first failure of the Japanese Navy as it had also had to retreat with heavy losses in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 6th to May 8th 1942) when one of the Japanese´s older Carriers, the Shoho, was sunk and one of their newer ones, the Shokaku, was put out of action for the next few months and the Zuikaku lost the majority of its aircraft.
If there was a turning point in the War in the Pacific in 1942, it occurred in the Pentagon, not the seas surrounding Midway, when a team based in Washington broke the Japanese Naval code. ... At the Battle of the Coral Sea, Yamamoto was assured that the USS Yorktown had been hit by 800lb bomb and had sunk to the bottom, when in fact it was ready for service at Midway.
Approximate Word count = 954
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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