Midway: Ten Moments That Turned the Pacific War (Illustrated Ebook)

At 10:22 a.m. on June 4, 1942, American dive bombers began wrecking three Japanese carriers in about five minutes. This book is about everything that had to happen first.

A 30-page illustrated history of the Battle of Midway, told moment by moment through the Navy, Marine Corps and Army Air Forces crews who fought it. It covers:

• "AF" and the water-shortage ruse at Station Hypo
• The PBY Catalina crews who found the enemy first ("Many planes heading Midway")
• Marine fighters of VMF-221 and John Ford filming the attack on the island
• The Midway strikes: TBFs, B-26s, Henderson's Marine SBDs, Vindicators and B-17s
• Torpedo Squadrons 8, 6 and 3, George Gay, and the Thach Weave
• McClusky, Best and Leslie at 10:22, and why the "five fateful minutes" story is a myth
• Yorktown, Hiryu, Fleming, Mikuma, Hammann and the long tail of the battle

Includes 18 archival U.S. government photographs (counting the cover), an original battle map, a timeline, a "by the numbers" page, and a full list of sources. Where the sources disagree on aircraft counts, casualties and times, the book gives each figure and names its source.

Pairs with Sortie Stories Episode 2 on YouTube.

Format: PDF, 7x10 in, 30 pages, about 8.6 MB.

How it was made: the text was drafted with AI assistance, then fact-checked against the Naval History and Heritage Command (including the 1943 ONI combat narrative), the Marine Corps monograph Marines at Midway, the National Security Agency, the National Archives and the National WWII Museum. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it in the next edition (free update).

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Navy or the Department of War (Department of Defense). Logbook Press is an independent history imprint. Photos are U.S. government public-domain works.

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