Interesting Take on Midway

[Q-Ball]

Sorry if this has circulated before, but if not, it's worth your time. I've read a ton on Midway like everyone else here (if you have not read SHATTERED SWORD you need to rectify that now), but this video and animiation does a great job IMO in putting it together from the IJN side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo

There's also one on Coral Sea, and a few others

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Sorry if this has circulated before, but if not, it's worth your time. I've read a ton on Midway like everyone else here (if you have not read SHATTERED SWORD you need to rectify that now), but this video and animiation does a great job IMO in putting it together from the IJN side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo

There's also one on Coral Sea, and a few others

Yes, it's a good video. It made the rounds here a few months ago. That's what you get for being away from this forum for so long. [:'(]

That's part 1 of the Midway video(s). It's been a year and no part 2? [&:]

[LeeChard]

I didn't have time to watch the entire vid but it looked good. I will be coming back to it.

[Bodei]

Yeah, a good one, tons of people waiting for him to do part 2!

Also search for Jonathan Parshall lectures on YouTube

[Ian R]

I saw a youtube where some guy said that the USN cleverly failed to defend Midway with the carrier air, choosing instead to accept losses there, so that the carrier air could catch the KB in re-arm/fueling cycle.

While that did happen, the assertion the timing was deliberate and porecise seems like a stretch. Although in a way, that was the more general plan.

[Mundy]

I've got this guy subscribed. He does a decent Coral Sea, too.