The Broken Code That Erased Japan's Carrier Fleet at Midway in One Morning

The Broken Code That Erased Japan's Carrier Fleet at Midway did not happen because of five lucky minutes of dive bombing. On June 4, 1942, American SBD Dauntless dive bombers destroyed three Japanese fleet carriers in eighteen minutes — the result of three weeks of advance warning most retellings leave out entirely. The Imperial Japanese Navy would never again put that carrier force to sea. This documentary follows the real chain of events behind the Battle of Midway: Station HYPO's cryptanalysts under Commander Joseph Rochefort breaking Japan's JN-25 naval code, the fabricated water-shortage message that confirmed Midway as Japan's target, and the emergency seventy-two-hour repair of USS Yorktown after the Battle of the Coral Sea. It covers the doomed torpedo attacks by TBD Devastator squadrons from USS Hornet, USS Enterprise, and Yorktown, Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky's fuel-limited search decision, and the eighteen minutes in which Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu were fatally struck, followed by Hiryu's counterstrike and the losses of June 4 through June 7, 1942. Sourced from after-action reports, Navy loss tables, and squadron rosters from the Battle of Midway. Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days. #WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #BattleOfMidway #USNavy #WWIIHistory #SBDDauntless #JN25 #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2