28.2°N 177.4°W Pacific Battle of Midway
Briefing
Between 4 and 7 June 1942, American codebreakers allowed the outnumbered US Pacific Fleet to ambush the Japanese carrier force, sinking all four fleet carriers of the strike force in exchange for the USS Yorktown. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan had lost the core of its naval air power and never regained the strategic initiative.
Books Covering This Event (8)
Popular History
The classic minute-by-minute narrative of the Battle of Midway, built from hundreds of participant interviews.
The classic single-volume history of the American war against Japan.
From Pearl Harbor through Midway — the first volume of Toll's Pacific War Trilogy.
The ten thousand American women recruited to break Japanese and German codes — sworn to a secrecy most kept for life.
Memoir
A Doolittle Raider's own story of the impossible 1942 carrier-launched strike on Tokyo, the crash in China, and the escape.
The Japanese account of Midway, co-written by the airman who led the Pearl Harbor strike and stood on Akagi's deck as the bombs fell.