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Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan (The Japanese Navy's Story)


Year: 1966
Language: english
Author: Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: OCR with errors
Pages count: 157
Description: MIDWAY: The Battle that Doomed Japan is a book of enormous narrative excitement and genuine historical importance. It tells of the great naval battle that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific. Its authors, Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, were officers in the Imperial Japanese Navy and were participants in the events they describe. Fuchida served as commander of the Air Unit on the Akagi, flag ship of the Japanese carrier group. He assisted in planning the Midway operation and saw the destruction of the Akagi from the flaming flight deck. Okumiya served with the northern diversionary force that made the attack and landings on the Aleutians.
Additional info: Readers of this American edition owe a real debt to Roger Pineau, who worked with Admiral Morrison in preparing the U.S. naval history of the war, and to Clarke Kawakami, a Japanese-American, who served with the historical section of General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo.
They have worked over the Japanese text, prompting the authors to give further detail where needed, checking facts against American battle records, correcting errors, correlating statements with those of U.S. naval commanders. The result is a book as nearly perfect as any battle history can be.

Contents

Foreword by Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN (Ret.)
Introduction by Nobutake Kondo, formerly Admiral, IJN
Authors' Preface
Editors' Preface
Publisher's Note
1. Sortie from Hashirajima
2. Evolution of Japanese Naval Strategy
Prewar Development—Strategy of Initial Operations—The Pearl Harbor Attack—Nagumo
Force in Southern Operations
3. Debate on Future Strategy
Eastward vs. Westward Advance—The Australia-First School—Midway Debate
4. Doolittle Ends Debate
Concern Over Enemy Air Threat—The Doolittle Raid—Midway Operation Decided
5. Midway Operation Plan
Yamamoto, the Guiding Spirit—Outline of Operations
6. Preparations for Battle
Belated Consultations—Testing the Battle Plan— Battle of the Coral Sea—Final Operations
7. Heading for Battle
Sortie of Forces—Admiral Nagumo—Developments, 30-31 May—Developments, 1-2 June—
Developments, 3 June
8. Gathering Storm
American Situation and Preparations—Japanese Transports Discovered—Action to the North, 3
June 1942—False Alarms
9. The Nagumo Force Fights
Search for the Enemy—First Attack Wave Launched—Midway Strike—Shore-Based Air
Attack—American Carriers Sighted—Enemy Carrier Planes Attack-—Five Fateful Minutes—
Hiryu's Gallant Fight—Enemy Carrier Planes Strike Again —Retreat
10. Admiral Yamamoto's Operations
On the Bridge of Yamato—Vacillating Command —Anxiety in Naval General Staff—
Abandonment of the Operation
11. Finale
Kurita's Bombardment Mission—Exploits of Submarine I-168—Reassembly—Retirement
12. Analysis of the Defeat
General Summary—Myth of the Almighty Battleship—Mistaken Naval Air Policy—
Technological Backwardness—Arrogance
Appendix 1. U.S. and Japanese Losses in the Battle of Midway
Appendix 2. Combined Fleet Task Organization, 5 June 1942

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