Turning defeat into victory is the most intimate plot mode for Americans.However, the national power, territory, geographical location and natural conditions of the United States have determined that she has rarely been fortunate enough to be in that position in the past 100 years.However, the Battle of Midway was one of them. Less than half a year after the Japanese captured Pearl Harbor, they dispatched a fleet of eighty-eight battle-hardened surface ships. security forces. ] to complete the two missions of capturing Midway Island and luring and annihilating the weakened US Pacific Fleet.Japan plans to use this to kick off the second phase of the battle, striving to win Hawaii and isolate Australia.

However, the war situation did not develop according to the pattern predetermined by the Japanese.Advanced code-breaking and radio interception issued timely warnings, enabling the U.S. naval forces (only 28 surface ships) to sail quickly past Midway Island, which was greatly inferior to the Japanese in numbers but equipped with good generals. set up an ambush on the flank. How it will end is not yet known before the war.Among the Japanese vanguard were the battle-hardened aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Soryu under the command of Vice Admiral Nagumo Chuichi.It was this general who commanded six aircraft carriers, including these four, to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7; since then, the Nanyun Task Force has won successive battles in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.

In the waters off Midway Island, Nagumo, the captain of his aircraft carrier, and the airmen fought bravely and bravely, and the American bombers' attacks on the Japanese ships failed to succeed. At this time, suddenly, the wise decision of the American commander and the accurate dive bombers Bombing, and a little luck, worked together.At the end of the battle, the Japanese lost four aircraft carriers, one heavy cruiser, and more than 300 aircraft.However, this battle may also have another ending.Although the United States has won now, it has also lost the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hanman.

The Battle of Midway seriously called into question the widely held view that the Japanese would have lost had they not succeeded in their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.At that time, the U.S. Pacific Fleet already knew that the Japanese army was approaching, knew when the Japanese army would launch an attack (almost accurate to the minute), and also knew the location of the Japanese army's attack and the force it would throw. Moreover, the U.S. fleet could maneuver at will on the high seas, and had the ability to suddenly attack. Offensive advantage, and the United States won so narrowly.Therefore, we believe that naming this book The Miracle of Midway Island is not a grandstanding, but a matter of fact.In the naval battle, the attack by the US land-based bombers was ineffective, and the attack by the carrier-based bombers was also ineffective. It was only because of the last-minute rendezvous and the successful bombing of the dive bombers that the success of the battle was guaranteed.In view of the fact that the US commanders, warships and crews have undergone six months of actual combat training after the Pearl Harbor incident, otherwise people have to doubt: If the US Pacific Fleet dispatched to meet the Nagumo Task Force on December 7, the result would be It won't be better, if not worse.Admiral Nimitz held this view, and he frankly believed that it was a great mercy of God that Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's fleet was not at sea but in its berth.

The Battle of Midway was in some respects the exact opposite of the attack on Pearl Harbor.This time, the Japanese were overconfident in their thinking, sloppy in their planning, sloppy in their training, and underestimated and belittled their opponents, while the Americans were calm, witty, and accurate in intelligence.After the battle, the United States was elated, feeling that at least part of the Pearl Harbor revenge had been avenged.However, the significance of this battle is far from that.The Battle of Midway is generally considered to be a turning point in the Pacific War.Although there will be more than three years of hard work, the Americans have seized the initiative after all.Before the start of the battle, the Japanese had been fighting a war of aggression aimed at conquest, constantly expanding their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; but after the start of the battle, the Japanese considered how to keep their achievements and how to hold on to their dwindling forces range until finally being driven back to the starting point of the attack, and beyond.

The Battle of Midway offered many opportunities and temptations to joke about this fascinating if-then-but history, especially with regard to the American side.If Nimitz had not insisted on his judgment of the situation at the time, the main target of the Japanese army was Midway Island, and at the same time, the attack on the Aleutian Islands was only a diversionary operation, how would the war situation develop?At that time, tremendous pressure from all sides tried to force Nimitz to refuse to believe the information provided to him by the Combat Intelligence Bureau on the island of Hawaii.Some of Nimitz's staff also found it hard to believe that Admiral Yamamoto Fifty-Six, the difficult commander of the United Fleet, would assemble such a huge fleet to attack Midway, let alone Kiska Island and Attu Island, because doing so is tantamount to spearing small fish and shrimp with a harpoon.The commander of the Hawaii Command confidently asserted that this time Yamamoto would attack Oahu in a big way.Some senior officers in the War Department believed that the Japanese would press on the west coast and bomb the aircraft factories in southern California.

Nimitz was not stubborn, and he listened politely to all sides.But once he made up his mind, he immediately went all out.He has made great contributions to America. Any large-scale battle is intricate, and so was Midway.So many things are happening at the same time that even the combatants, who are perhaps the least likely to see the whole battle going on, can see it.Now, there are few truly contentious issues left, and while the wisdom of certain decisions can be debated forever, certain tactical actions have been obscured by the smoke of pitched battles.Therefore, there are bound to be some readers who disagree with this or that point made in our findings and conclusions.It does us no harm.Gordon Prange never thought he had seen it all, knew it all, and as heirs to the professor's work, we are even less lacking.

Had he lived, he would have us dedicate this book to all our friends on both sides of the Pacific who have endeavored to help us write it.We dedicate this book to them with gratitude.