Midway Inquest

Informationen zum Autor Dallas W. Isom Klappentext Why could the Japanese not get a bomber strike launched against the American carrier force before being attacked and destroyed by American dive bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown? Although it is well known that the Japanese were unable to launch an immediate attack because their aircraft were in the process of changing armament, why wasn't the rearming operation reversed and an attack launched before the American planes arrived? Based on extensive research in Japanese primary records, Japanese literature on the battle, and interviews with over two dozen Japanese veterans from the carrier air groups, this book solves the mystery at last. Zusammenfassung While no book may ever silence debate on the subject! "Midway Inquest" answers the central mystery of the battle. Why could the Japanese not get a bomber strike launched against the American carrier force before being attacked and destroyed by American dive bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown? Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter One - Why This Inquest Chapter Two - Prelude Chapter Three - The Run-up to Midway Chapter Four - The Fatal Decision Chapter Five - Gamble Lost Chapter Six - To Launch or Not to Launch Chapter Seven - Ironies Chapter Eight - Denouement Chapter Nine - Aftermath Chapter Ten - Post-mortem Appendixes Appendix A - Nagumo's Official Report (excerpts) Appendix B - SRMN-012, Traffic Intelligence Summaries, pp. 499-505 Appendix C - Reconstruction of Japanese CAP activity Appendix D - War Game Exercise Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Autorentext
Dallas W. Isom

Klappentext
Why could the Japanese not get a bomber strike launched against the American carrier force before being attacked and destroyed by American dive bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown? Although it is well known that the Japanese were unable to launch an immediate attack because their aircraft were in the process of changing armament, why wasn't the rearming operation reversed and an attack launched before the American planes arrived? Based on extensive research in Japanese primary records, Japanese literature on the battle, and interviews with over two dozen Japanese veterans from the carrier air groups, this book solves the mystery at last.

Zusammenfassung
While no book may ever silence debate on the subject, "Midway Inquest" answers the central mystery of the battle. Why could the Japanese not get a bomber strike launched against the American carrier force before being attacked and destroyed by American dive bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown?

Inhalt
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One - Why This Inquest
Chapter Two - Prelude
Chapter Three - The Run-up to Midway
Chapter Four - The Fatal Decision
Chapter Five - Gamble Lost
Chapter Six - To Launch or Not to Launch
Chapter Seven - Ironies
Chapter Eight - Denouement
Chapter Nine - Aftermath
Chapter Ten - Post-mortem
Appendixes
Appendix A - Nagumo's Official Report (excerpts)
Appendix B - SRMN-012, Traffic Intelligence Summaries, pp. 499-505
Appendix C - Reconstruction of Japanese CAP activity
Appendix D - War Game Exercise
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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