The Battle of Midway June 3 - 6, 1942

MISCELLANEOUS: BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes

The Battle of Midway: An Introduction - Pearl Harbor Revisited

1. From Day of Infamy, Walter Lord, p. 11
2. From Day of Infamy, Walter Lord, p. 13
3. From At Dawn We Slept, Gordon W. Prange, p. 587
4. USN-Navy Historical Center. Picture scanned from U.S. Battleships in Action, Part 1, Robert C. Stern, p. 38
5. From Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange, p. 1
6. From At Dawn We Slept, Gordon W. Prange, p. 543
7. USN-NARS. Picture scanned from U.S. Battleships in Action, Part 1, Robert C. Stern, p. 7

 

The Leaders

The Principle of the Objective--Nagumo vs. Spruance at Midway

Titans of the Seas, James H. Belote and William M. Belote
Understanding Defeat, Col. T.N. Dupuy
Midway: the Battle That Doomed Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN, Vice Admiral E.P. Forrestel
Yamamoto, Edwin P. Hoyt
Nimitz, E.B. Potter

 

Torpedo Eight In Color

All of the color photos presented are taken from the movie Torpedo Squadron 8. These photos were taken from VHS and scanned for use on the web site by Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942

 

Appendix

Appendix Two: Order of Battle

1. IJN Order of Battle from Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, pp. 214-222
2. From Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange, pp. 432-436
3. US Carrier Air Group information provided by Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942 (NOTE: This information was provided directly from the author, not his book)
4. United States destroyer data provided from History of United States Naval Operations in World War II by Samuel Eliot Morison, Little Brown & co., Boston, 1962

Appendix Four: United States Air Groups

Midway Air Groups

US Midway Based Air Group information provided by Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942 (NOTE: This information was provided directly from the author, not his book)

Monthly Report of Aircraft Operating Time (Fighting Three)

A copy of this document was provided by RADM William N. Leonard (Ret), via his son Rich.

United States Carrier Air Groups

US Carrier Air Group information provided by Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942 (NOTE: This information was provided directly from the author, not his book)

US Carrier Air Gourd Personnel Bios

Various Sources:

I wish to thank sincerely George Wayne McMullan for providing me data from his numerous sources, as most of the information you see here is his.

I also wish to thank Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942 , for providing me with the complete list of pilots and crewmembers you see on this page.

Arial victory totals from The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway, John B. Lundstrom, Appendix 6 pp. 490-495

Appendix Nine: Enterprise Air Strikes, Morning of June 4, 1942

1. Enterprise air strike table provided by Mark E. Horan, author of A Glorious Page in Our History: The Battle of Midway 4 - 6 June 1942 (NOTE: This information was provided directly from the author, not his book)

Appendix Thirteen: Chronology

1. From Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange, pp. 437-445

Bibliography

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Belote, James H. and William M. Belote. Titans of the Seas. New York: Harper and Row, 1975

Dupuy, Col. T.N. Understanding Defeat. New York: Paragon House, 1990

Forrestel, Vice Admiral E.P. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN. Washington D.C.: U.S.Government Printing Office, 1966

Fuchida, Mitsuo and Masatake Okumiya. Midway: the Battle That Doomed Japan. New York, New York: Ballantine Books, 1958

Hoyt, Edwin P. Yamamoto. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990

Lundstrom, John B. The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1984

Lord, Walter, Day of Infamy, New York: A Bantam Book/published by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1957

Potter, E.B. Nimitz. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1976

Prange, Gordon W., At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, New York: Penguin Books, 1981

Prange, Gordon W., Miracle at Midway, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982

Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Boston: Little Brown & co., 1962

Stern, Robert C. U.S. Battleships in action, Part 1, Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Punlications, 1980

Stern, Robert C. U.S. Aircraft Carriers in action, Part 1, Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Punlications, 1991