Midway order of battle

Midway order of battle

This is the order of battle for the World War II Battle of Midway.

Contents

Overview

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Imperial Japanese Navy Ship Type United States Navy
Akagi | Hiryū | Kaga | Sōryū CV Enterprise | Hornet | Yorktown
Zuihō CVL None
Kamikawa Maru | Chiyoda | Nisshin CVS None
Fuso | Haruna | Hiei | Hyuga | Ise | Kirishima | Kongo | Mutsu | Nagato | Yamashiro | Yamato BB None
Atago | Chikuma | Chokai | Haguro | CA Astoria | Minneapolis | New Orleans | Northampton | Pensacola | Portland | Vincennes
Jintsu | Nagara | Oi CL Atlanta
Akigumo | Amagiri | Amatsukaze | Arare | Arashi | Arashio | Asagiri | Asashio | Asagumo | Ayanami | Fubuki | Hagikaze | Hamakaze | Harusame | Hatsukaze | Hatsuyuki | Hayashio | Isokaze | Isonami | Kagero | Kasumi | Kazagumo | Kuroshio | Maikaze | Makigumo | Minegumo | DD Aylwin | Anderson | Balch | Benham | Blue | Clark | Conyngham | Dewey | Ellet | Gwin| Hammann | Hughes | Maury | Monaghan | Monssen | Morris | Phelps | Russell | Ralph Talbot | Worden
Submarine Cachalot | Cuttlefish | Dolphin | Finback | Flying Fish | Gato | Grayling | Grenadier | Grouper | Growler | Gudgeon | Narwhal | Nautilus | Pike | Plunger | Tambor | Tarpon | Trigger | Trout
AO Cimarron | Guadalupe | Platte
No. 2 | No. 34 | No. 35 PT AE None
Tama Maru No. 5 | Showa Maru No. 7 | Showa Maru No. 8 AMS None
No. 17 | No. 18 SC None
Akashi Akashi None
97 x Aichi D3A "Val" | 101 x Nakajima B5N "Kate" A/C 129 x Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" | 42 x Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator" | 32 x PBY-5/A "Catalina" | 6 x Grumman TBF "Avenger" | 4 x Martin B-26 "Marauder" | 19 x Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress"

Japanese Combined Fleet

The Japanese forces actually consisted of two different fleets detailed to two separate operations, namely Operation AL (for the Aleutians) and Operation MI (for Midway).

First Fleet

  • First Fleet Main Force
    • 1st Battleship Division - Rear Admiral Gihachi Takayanagi in Yamato
    • Carrier Group:
      • CVE Hōshō - Captain Kaoru Umetani (8 B4Y1 'Jean' - Lt. Yoshiaki Irikiin)
      • DD Yukaze - Lt. Commander Shizuka Kajimoto
    • Special Force
      • CVS Chiyoda - Captain Kaku Harada
      • CVS Katsumi Komazawa
    • Screening Force
      • 3rd Destroyer Squadron - Rear Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto in Sendai
        • CL Sendai - Captain Nobue Morishita
        • 11th Destroyer Division - Captain Kichiro Shoji (Fubuki - Lt. Commander Shizuo Yamashita, Shirayuki - Lt. Commander Rokoro Sugawara, Hatsuyuki - Lt. Commander Junnari Kamiura, Murakumo - Lt. Commander Hideo Higashi)
        • 19th Destroyer Division - Captain Ranji Oe (Isonami - Commander Ryokichi Sugama, Uranami - Lt. Commander Tsutomu Hagio, Shikinami - Lt. Commander Akifumi Kawahashi, Ayanami - Commander Eiji Sakuma)
    • 1st Supply Group: Captain Shigeyasu Nishioka in Naruto
      • Naruto (Oiler) - Captain Nishioka
      • Toei Maru
  • First Carrier Striking Force (First Air Fleet) - Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
    • 1st Carrier Division: Vice Admiral Nagumo in Akagi
      • Akagi - Captain Taijiro Aoki
        • Air Unit: Commander Mitsuo Fuchida (19 A6M2 Type 21 - Lt. Commander Shigeru Itaya, 18 D3A1 - Lt. Commander Takehiko Chihaya, 18 B5N2 - Lt. Commander Shigeharu Murata)
      • Kaga - Captain Jisaku Okada†.
        • Air Unit: Lt Commander Tadashi Kusumi† (18 A6M2 Type 21 - Lt. Masao Sato, 18 D3A1 - Lt. Shoichi Ogawa, 27 B5N2 - Lt. Ichiro Kitajima)
    • 2nd Carrier Division: Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi† in Hiryū.
      • Hiryū - Captain Tomeo Kaku†
        • Air Unit: Lt Joichi Tomonaga† (18 A6M2 Type 21 - Lt. Shigeru Mori†, 18 D3A1 - Lt. Michio Kobayashi†, 18 B5N2 - Lt. Kikuchi Rokuro†)
      • Sōryū - Captain Ryusaku Yanagimoto†
        • Air Unit: Lt Commander Takashige Egusa (18 A6M2 Type 21 - Lt. Masaharu Suganami, 18 D3AI - Lt. Masahiro Ikeda, 18 B5N2 - Lt. Heijiro Abe, 2 D4Y1)
    • Support Group
      • 8th Cruiser Division: Rear Admiral Hiroaki Abe in Tone
        • CA Tone - Captain Tametsugu Okada (3 E13A1 Type 0, 2 E8N2 Type 95)
        • CA Chikuma - Captain Keizo Komura (3 E13A1 Type 0, 2 E8N2 Type 95)
    • 3rd Battleship Division, 2nd Section: RADM Tamotsu Takama in Haruna
      • Haruna - RADM Takama (3 E8N2 Type 95)
      • Kirishima - Captain Sanji Iwabuchi (3 E8N2 Type 95)
    • Screening Force
      • 10th Destroyer Squadron - Rear Admiral Susumu Kimura in Nagara
        • CL Nagara - Captain Toshio Naoi
        • 4th Destroyer Division - Captain Kosaku Ariga (Nowaki - Commander Magataro Koga, Arashi - Commander Yusumasa Watanabe, Hagikaze - Commander Juichi Iwagami, Maikaze - Commander Seiji Nakasugi)
        • 10th Destroyer Division- Captain Toshio Abe (Kazagumo - Commander Masayoshi Yoshida, Yugumo - Commander Shigeo Semba, Makigumo - Commander Isamu Fujita)
        • 17th Destroyer Division - Captain Masayuki Kitamura (Urakaze - Commander Nagayoshi Shiraishi, Isokaze - Commander Shunichi Toyoshima, Tanikaze - Commander Motoi Katsumi, Hamakaze - Commander Tsuneo Orita)
    • Supply Group 1 - Captain Masanao Ota in Kyokuto Maru
      • DD Akigumo - Commander Shohei Soma
      • 5 Oilers - Kyokuto Maru, Shinkoku Maru, Tōhō Maru, Nippon Maru, Kokuyo Maru

Second Fleet (Midway Invasion Force)


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