Anonymous commented at 2014-10-23 21:44:27 » #1622633

At Midway, Kaga, Soryu and Akagi were all sunk the first day of the battle by American dive bombers after they focused all their defensive efforts on lower-flying torpedo bombers. Hiryu broke away from the main group and was the only carrier to survive the initial assault, launching a counter-attack that fatally damaged the American carrier Yorktown, which was finished off by the submarine I-169. By the second day, however, Hiryu had been tracked down, and was also sunk by American dive bombers, wiping out more than half the total Japanese carrier force.

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