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04:30 First Japanese takeoff against Midway Islands; 04:30 10 planes (Yorktown) begin to search for the Japanese ships; 05:34 Japanese ships detected by a PBY from Midway I. 07:10 6 TBF Avengers and 4 USAAF B-26 (from Midway I.) attack; 07:15 Nagumo prepares reserve aircraft for second attack on Midway, in direct violation of Yamamoto's order
This is the order of battle for the Battle of Midway, a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, fought 4–7 June 1942 by naval and air forces of Imperial Japan and the United States in the waters around Midway Atoll in the far northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
I-68, later renumbered I-168, was an Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai–type cruiser submarine [1] of the KD6 sub-class commissioned in 1934. She served in World War II, operating in support of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and taking part in the Battle of Midway, the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Aleutian Islands campaign before she was sunk in 1943.
Sunk by the Japanese submarine I-19 during the Guadalcanal campaign. Yorktown: Fleet carrier 90 aircraft 7 June 1942 North of Midway Island: 141 Crippled by Japanese dive bombers and torpedo bombers from the carrier Hiryū during the Battle of Midway later finished off by Japanese submarine I-168 while under tow.
The second vessel in the four-ship Mogami class, [3] she was laid down in 1931 and commissioned in 1935. During World War II she participated in the Battle of Sunda Strait in February 1942 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942, and was sunk the last day of the latter engagement, on 6 June.
USS Corvina The only known instance of a US submarine being sunk by a Japanese submarine, sunk by Japanese submarine I-176. [13] USS Escolar Sunk 17 October 1944 by a Japanese mine. [13] USS Flier Sunk 13 August 1944 by Japanese mines. [13] USS Grampus Sunk 5 March 1943 by destroyers Minegumo and Murasame or by 958th Kōkūtai naval aircraft. [13]
Japanese submarine I-121; Japanese submarine I-122; Japanese submarine I-123; Japanese submarine I-156; Japanese submarine I-157; Japanese submarine I-158; Japanese submarine I-159; Japanese submarine I-162; Japanese submarine I-165; Japanese submarine I-166; Japanese submarine I-168; Japanese submarine I-169; Japanese submarine I-171; Japanese ...
The Japanese navy aimed to take control of the U.S. patrol plane base in a surprise attack at Midway Atoll, a tiny group of islands roughly halfway between the U.S. mainland and Asia.