Tell me about your reaction to the movie The Battle of Midway!

due to these serious defects in the basic operational plan, our army commanders suffered two big losses from the beginning. Even so, if they don't make mistakes in tactical command, it seems certain that the result will not be so miserable. Some people say that both sides will make mistakes in the battle, and victory belongs to the one who makes fewer mistakes.

it goes without saying which side made more mistakes in the naval battle of midway. Indeed, if we study the combat situation between the United States and Japan, we have to admit that all the mistakes in this battle are Japanese.

Nanyun vice admiral made the most mistakes, but that doesn't mean that his talents are inferior to those of other commanders. He was unlucky, because Nanyun troops were the only Japanese troops that really confronted the enemy. His situation forced him to make most decisions that would affect the outcome of the battle. Other commanders and officers, including Admiral Yamamoto, who is thought to be in command of all Japanese troops, are in the position of idle bystanders. Since they don't have to make a decision about success or failure like Nan Yun, they can't make mistakes.

after all these excuses for our commander, let's say something critical. According to the review afterwards, Nan Yun vice admiral obviously made three serious mistakes.

First, he didn't make sufficient search and deployment in the early morning of the air raid on Midway Island. If he had sent a two-phase search earlier, it would have been possible to find the enemy-spy mixed fleet that had not been detected soon, so that Nan Yun could strike first without being beaten. At least after he knew that the search engines of "Tsushima" and "Reagan" could not take off on time, he should immediately send other planes to fill the gap in the search sector. Of course, Nan Yun vice admiral can't be blamed for the failure of the No.5 search engine of "Jumo" to find the enemy aircraft carrier (although this plane probably flew over the enemy aircraft carrier).

Nan Yun's second mistake is related to the method he adopted to divide the carrier-based aircraft into the first attack wave and the second attack wave. Each attack wave is composed of planes drawn from four aircraft carriers in proportion, instead of the first attack wave composed of two aircraft carriers and the second attack wave composed of the other two aircraft carriers. Although using four aircraft carriers at the same time can shorten the take-off and recovery time of aircraft, it will inevitably increase the vulnerability if the aircraft is attacked by enemy planes during the recovery and immediately after the recovery, because all four aircraft carriers were too busy at that time to make their own aircraft take off immediately to fight against enemy attacks. At the same time, it also means that during this time, mobile forces can't attack enemy aircraft carriers, no matter how urgent the situation is. If Nan Yun only sent planes from two aircraft carriers to attack Midway Island, and let the planes of the other two aircraft carriers stand by for one thousand, he wouldn't find his hands and feet tied at the critical moment of the battle.

Nan Yun's third mistake, perhaps the most serious one, was that he didn't attack with all the planes immediately after discovering that the enemy's mixed fleet had an aircraft carrier. Whether these planes are equipped with suitable ammunition or not, or even without fighter cover, they should be dispatched. The risk of doing so is great, but isn't it a little more risky than being attacked by enemy carrier aircraft while the plane is lying on the deck, scrambling to refuel and change ammunition? Is there any reason for Nanyun to expect the enemy not to attack at this most vulnerable moment? He didn't want to risk sending a bomber with no cover and improper ammunition to attack the enemy. What was the result? The result of the method he chose was that his bomber was annihilated by enemy planes until his ability to fight back to recover the loss cost was wiped out. Rear Admiral Yamaguchi's judgment at this critical juncture is the only correct one. Nan Yun chose a self-righteous and safer policy, but since then several of his aircraft carriers have been doomed to be robbed.

Nan Yun's misjudgment ruined his mobile unit before Admiral Yamamoto could take any measures. In other words, the Japanese troops were almost completely defeated before the commander-in-chief of the joint fleet could use his judgment to influence the situation. In the face of this grim situation, did Admiral Yamamoto make the same indecisive mistake as Nan Yun? His aides suggested that he could save the war by fighting the enemy at sea. It was obviously a desperate plan and there was no hope at all. In the end, when he was forced to admit that there was no possibility of success in this plan, Admiral Yamamoto immediately gave up fighting and thought that the defeat was set and could not be saved.