Japanese Figure
Japanese Figure
What code did the Americans decode of the Japanese in the battle of Midway?
Ok.. What code of the Japanese did the Americans figure out in the Battle of Midway?
How they did it?… Who did it?…. and what was so significant about it- How did it give America the ‘upper-hand’?
Please reference a website so I can check it out!
The Americans intercepted a code from the Japanese that said they were moving to strike island AF. The Americans thinking that this could possibly be Midway, they devised a plan to fly out a PBY Catalina to personally tell the Marine garrison there to send a message that they were running low on fresh water, This plan was devised by a Commander in the Navy (can’t remember his name). Soon after the Americans intercepted a code from the Japanese that Island AF was running short on fresh water. This is how the Americans figured out they were going to attack Midway. This was very beneficial to the Americans because now they had the element of surprise. So they took all of their available carriers and waited. The Japanese never knew what hit’m. Once the American dive-bombers and torpedo planes found the Japanese fleet in less than 10 minutes 3 of their aircraft carriers were burning and sinking. By the end of the Battle the Japanese lost 4 carriers and the Americans lost 1, the Americans now turned the battle of the Pacific.
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