The Battle of Midway was undoubtedly the naval clash more main
point and decisive of the Second World war and perhaps of the whole history
navale.Non was the naval clash with more hocked means, Jutland and Leyte
overcame her/it abundantly.
Equally it was not the naval clash that he/she saw of forehead
the most greater number of aircraft carrier (here they met nine, while to the
Mariannes they were an about twenty).
The importance of the Battle of Midway is not therefore in the
statistic numbers merely of the ships and of the airplanes that participated you,
but he/she resides in the tactical and strategic turn that from it of it
derivò.Prima of this naval clash the Marina Imperiale Japanese was practically
considered unbeatable and set out toward an expansion of conquests in the
Pacific that almost appeared unstoppable, despite the strategic chessman
immediately during the Battle of the Sea of the Corals (this naval battle was
defeated from the Japanese but lost strategically considering that they didn't
succeed in disembarking, as foreseen, to Port Hartur in New Guinea, essential
point of departure for the estimated plain of conquest of Australia).
At the same time the U.S. Navy appeared, after the blow of
Pearl Harbur and the sinkings of the Langley and the Lexington, strongly tried
and therefore on the edge of the precipizio.Dopo this naval clash the Marina
Imperiale Japanese was suddenly found private of his/her offensive weapon more
powerful, that is the team of aircraft carrier of Nagumo and therefore you/he/she
limited him to try to counter the following American offensive, without more to
be able to take the contrary iniziativa.Al, after the naval clash of Midway, the
U.S. Navy took conscience of his/her own great strength, understood that the
Japanese were everything anything else other than invincible and it started to
take that initiative that brought her/it in the three year-old turn to reach
Tokyo.Conclusa this premise they emerge some essential precise statements.
BECAUSE THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY WAS WON BY
THE AMERICANS
The Battle of Midway was defeated from the Americans non
certain for the clear incompetence of Nagumo or Yamamoto, united to the scarce
resistance to the bombs of the Japanese aircraft carriers, as we have seen in
the passage that tells the chronicle of the battaglia.I you motivate they were
in our opinion well other:
the Americans knew with precision the Japanese secret code
and therefore they exactly knew where when they would have colpito.Senza the
secretiveness and the factor surprise any plan, also the more deepened, part
enormously disadvantaged. In fact the Americans prepared with care "the
committee of reception to the Japanese" and they wisely exploited this
advantage American iniziale.gli they had the radar and the Japanese no. This
is our judgment an enormous tactical and practical advantage. The lack of
the radar first of all forced the Japanese aircraft carriers to sail in
narrow formation (to be able to avoid this way to break the silence radio),
with the consequence that if an American scout discovered one of them it
also discovered automatically the other three of it. Then the radar allowed
the American aircraft carriers to make to take off all the airplanes on the
bridge of flight (you see the attack to the Yorktown) before the bombardiers
and Japanese aerosiluranti arrived, avoiding disastrous explosions. The
Japanese aircraft carriers, were instead all surprises with the bridge of
flight, full of airplanes in departure and load of bombs and torpedos, an
explosive and harmful mixture highly (you think about the Kaga). the
Americans wisely dosed his/her own strengths and the Japanese no. Also
having an enormously inferior number of ships the Americans they dosed her
in two powerful persons Task Force that they were able to defend himself/herself/themselves
to story. The Japanese dispersed in bizarre way instead theirs enormous war
potential, practically leaving the aircraft carriers of Nagumo without
defense. Because the mighty team of Yamamoto didn't sail to hold distance
from the four aircraft carriers, ready to defend her, but did he/she remain
to big distance without participating in the Battle of Midway?
the Americans immediately individualized the Japanese,
while this last ones they succeeded to discover and with alone delay one of
the three American aircraft carriers (the Yorktown). The key of the American
victory is all in the being succeeded in individualizing the enemy with
precision well before being open. In this the Japanese had an unbelievable
and tragic adversity! The only scout that departed late (because of
mechanical problems) was really what would be found in rout of interception
with the Yorktown!la battles was lost for five prophetic minutes! If they
were departed other five minutes the whole wave of assault Japanese you/he/she
would be taken off by the four aircraft carriers and you/he/she would have
been able to easily intercept and to shoot down the bombardiers of the
Hornet and the Enterprise, was amazed instead while it was taking off and
you/he/she had easily demolished when it was still on the bridge of volo.la
conceitedness it plays ugly jokes. For conceitedness the serventis of the
aircraft carriers piled up on the bridges of flight the torpedos and the
bombs, without transporting them in the special deposits armored in the
inferior bridges. This made to become the aircraft carriers of the afloat
time bombs that in fact punctually they exploded to the first attack!
the Americans didn't have Halsey and the Japanese they had
Nagumo instead. Seen what Halsey did to Leyte (court martial behavior that
almost it didn't cost a ruinous slaughter to the Americans), the urticaria
that prevented the American admiral to command the Task Force to Midway, was
providential rather and savior. It was unfortunately contrarily "healthy
as a fish" the prudent one and traditionalist Admiral Nagumo, which fed
well little trust on the power of the aerial strength in comparison to the
traditional battleships. The greatest criticism that can be done to Nagumo
is that to have been too much undecided on the to make himself/herself/themselves
and to have listened until too much the suggestions of his/her own
assistants (Genda in head) that they now proposed him to use the torpedos
and few instants after to use the bombs to embark on the airplanes. Didn't
he/she succeed therefore to have a linear and precise tactical behavior,
looking for instead of continually making up for to the tactical errors and
of evaluation that committed in rapids and dramatic succession If had Won the
Japanese?
If they had won the Japanese, very probable hypothesis
before the clash, the war scenery in the Pacific would surely have taken a
well different direction from that that followed instead in the reality.
If the Japanese had succeeded in sinking the Enterprise,
the Hornet and the Yorktown, reducing to the least one his/her own losses,
the United States you/they would still have had an only operational aircraft
carrier in the Pacific, that is the old Saratoga and two usable, still in
the Atlantic, the Ranger and the Wasp.Queste three aircraft carriers would
be found of forehead, besides the four of Nagumo, also the hardly sheltered
Zuikaku and Shokaku, over that to other five light aircraft carriers.
Moreover the Americans would not have been able to furnish for
at least other eight months the new aircraft carriers of class Essex.
This great disparity of naval strengths would have prevented
any initiative to the Americans and guaranteed to the Japanese the absolute
control on the Pacific.
If we add the fact that before the Battle of Midway Great
Britain had already begun secret negotiations with the Japanese to break away
from the conflict, he can easily think that USA would be found alone and other
you/they would not have been able to do if not to come to a non dishonorable
peace leaving liberty of action to the empire of the Sol Levante.Queste I am
only naturally hypothesis from "fantastoria", however rather
reasonable if the events were developed in different way.
BECAUSE JAPAN LOST THE WAR DURING THE
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
To affirm that Japan lost the war with the Battle of Midway
can perhaps seem too exaggerated, but surely with this epic naval battle it
abandoned forever every hope to win it.
In this battle Japan non lost only his/her more glorious
aircraft carriers (Akagi and Kaga in head), hardly creating a void colmabile
from the war industry, but above all lost forever 300 of the best his pilots!
These pilots had reached in the first year of war an
efficiency of the 90% of the hits (bombs and torpedos) scored and therefore a
precision impressionante.Se is added the fact that the training for a pilot of
the harbor had to be at least of three or four years, is understood how come
Japan, after Midway, has not succeeded in sufficiently forging in time a tall
number anymore of pilot war esperti.L'industria succeeded in fact to reconstruct
the airplanes but not the men that them pilotavano.Mandando on the airplanes the
"pivellini" wanted for strength to say to wait him for big losses of
airplanes (for instance think about the "I throw to the pigeon of the
Mariannes") and scarce precision in the attacks, therefore to lose the war!