The Japanese Lost 4 aircraft carriers, along with their pilots at the Battle of Midway. The USA lost one aircraft carrier. Midway is considered the beginning of the end of the war for Japan and the start of their road to defeat.
The USS Yorktown.
It was the first major naval battle of the Pacific War that was an overwhelming defeat for the Japanese Navy. The US Navy lost one aircraft carrier but Japan lost four of its' six main fleet carriers. It was also the turning point of the war in the Pacific, Japan was always on the defensive after Midway.
Approximately 300 US Sailors and 3,000 IJN Sailors KIA. 150 US airplanes lost. 250 IJN airplanes lost. 4 carriers/1 cruiser IJN lost. 1 carrier/1 destroyer USN lost.
US lost Yorktown; Japanese lost Kaga, Akagi, Soryu, Heryu
The Japanese Lost 4 aircraft carriers, along with their pilots at the Battle of Midway. The USA lost one aircraft carrier. Midway is considered the beginning of the end of the war for Japan and the start of their road to defeat.
The USS Yorktown.
The USS Yorktown
One : the carrier Yorktown - 5 June 1942 .
It was the first major naval battle of the Pacific War that was an overwhelming defeat for the Japanese Navy. The US Navy lost one aircraft carrier but Japan lost four of its' six main fleet carriers. It was also the turning point of the war in the Pacific, Japan was always on the defensive after Midway.
Approximately 300 US Sailors and 3,000 IJN Sailors KIA. 150 US airplanes lost. 250 IJN airplanes lost. 4 carriers/1 cruiser IJN lost. 1 carrier/1 destroyer USN lost.
US lost Yorktown; Japanese lost Kaga, Akagi, Soryu, Heryu
The goal of the Japanese was to use the bombing of Midway to lure the Americans into an uneven fight, and annihilate the US carrier force. The US goal was to ambush the Japanese and annihilate the Japanese carrier force.
The Japanese were seeking to invade and occupy Midway to protect their homeland from an attack such as that of the Doolittle Raid of April 1942. Instead, in the Battle of Midway, the Japanese lost four aircraft carriers -- the Soryu, the Kaga, Akagi and Hiryu -- while sinking one US carrier, the Yorktown. With this battle the Japanese were so weakened that they spent the rest of the war on defense.
USS Yorktown. It was sunk at the Battle of Midway in June 1942
It was a lopsided US victory during which the Japanese lost most of its Naval Air Fleet including four carriers and one cruiser, 332 aircraft and about 3,500 seamen. The US lost the carrier Yorktown, one destroyer and 307 servicemen.
The Battle of Midway is considered the turning point in the Pacific in WWII. It was the first time the US was able to turn back and resist the Japanese carrier fleet.