The Unsolved Disaster of Midway - The Flight to Nowhere

The Battle of Midway went down in history as perhaps the most important victory of the US Navy in World War 2 - but beyond this success lies a tragic story of how a whole US carrier strike group collapsed within only a couple of hours.

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A16-3, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Action Report Midway Serial 0144-A, 16 Jun 1942, available at: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/digital-exhibits-highlights/action-reports/wwii-battle-of-midway/tf-16-action-report.html

Barrett Tillmann, The Battle of Midway, 2011, available at https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0211midway/

Craig Symonds, The Battle of Midway, Oxford University Press: 2011
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Craig Symonds, Mitscher and the Mystery of Midway, Naval Institute, available at https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2012/may/mitscher-and-mystery-midway

John Lundstrom, The First Team, Naval Institute Press: 2013
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Jonathan Parshall, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, Naval Heritage: 24 Jun 2014, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rkKtK1b44

Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully, Shattered Sword, Potomac Books: 2007
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Stephen L. Moore, Pacific Payback, Dutton Caliber: 2015
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No. 286 Combat Narratives: Battle of Midway June 3-6 1942, 1943, available at: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/battle-of-midway-3-6-june-1942-combat-narrative.html

Roland Russell, No Right To Win: A Continuing Dialogue with Veterans of the Battle of Midway, iUniverse: 2006
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USS Hornet (CV-8) Action Report USS Hornet Serial 0018, 13 June 1942, available at https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/oral-histories/wwii/battle-of-midway/recollections-of-lieutenant-george-gay.html

- Timecodes -
00:00 - The Battle of Midway
01:40 - The Flight to Nowhere: The Squadrons
04:22 - Hard Calls
06:31 - Get Off My Deck
08:30 - Intermission
09:24 - Two-Six-Five
11:14 - Waldron Breaks
12:17 - A House of Cards
13:52 - Torpedo Eight
16:48 - Bingo Fuel
17:49 - The Beacon is Lit
19:30 - Midway
20:27 - Home Sweet Home
22:10 - Unmitigated Disaster
26:58 - Recommendations

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