The many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida’s Midway

[Chief_Seadog]

@c.captain

The only way Midway could have tipped any scales in favor of the Japanese would have been for them to have found the US carriers first and gotten in a blow like we got on them. Three US carriers caught on their heels and sent to the bottom would have left no serviceable carriers in the US fleet and the Japs would have owned the Western Pacific all of 1943 and well into 1944 before new US carriers would have arrived plus we would have had to overcome being the loser and feeling defensive about the employment of carriers. Midway put the US in the position of being the victor so the Japanese were always being defensive about employing their carriers. Guadalcanal likely would never have happened since we would have had zero carriers to support the Marines!

Th Essex (CV-9) was commissioned in December 1942 and moved to the Pacific for action May 1943.