Turning the Tide, livre ebook

 At Midway, Commander Joseph Rochefort, USN, and his team cracked a Japanese code, which revealed Admiral Yamato’s plan of attack on Midway Island. Japanese losses were vast and many Japanese airmen who had carried out the attacks at Pearl Harbor would meet their end at the Battle of Midway. Turning the Tide details these key events of the Pacific War and how the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway allowed the US to be able to counter the Japanese at Guadalcanal.
The Hornet’s torpedo squadron, led by Lieut.-Commander J. C. Waldron, had proceeded at a lower altitude than the remainder of the attack group, from which it became separated although there were only scattered clouds. The squadron turned north to search, and found four Japanese carriers dispersed in a wide roughly circular formation, accompanied as they estimated by two or three battleships, four cruisers and six destroyers. Warning of their approach was given by the Tone’s reconnaissance aircraft. The Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were close together, with the Hiryu standing off some distance to the north. The Japanese carriers had just completed landing-on their Midway attack groups and the Americans believed, incorrectly, that the Soryu and one other ship resembling a battleship were smoking from the attacks of the Midway aircraft an hour earlier.