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This Admiral relieved ADM Halsey as the Commander of Task Force 16. He was the commander during the Battle of Midway.
Who is Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance? (Admiral William "Bull" Halsey fell ill due to psoriasas/severe dermatitis and was removed by Chester Nimitz prior to Midway)
The Battle of Midway began on this date and lasted for four days.
Midway is so named because it sits almost exactly halfway across the pacific ocean when traveling from California to _______.
What is Japan?
This codename was used by the Japanese to designate Midway island through cryptologic correspondence.
This US carrier was present for the Battle of the Coral Sea and was later lost following heavy battle damage in the Battle of Midway from a japanese torpedo.
What is the USS Yorktown?
This Japanese Admiral was the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor and designed the attack on the Battle of Midway.
Who was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto?
Place these events in chronological order:
a) The Battle of Coral Sea, b) The Doolittle Raids, c) The Battle of Guadalcanal, and d) The Battle of Midway.
What is:
b) The Doolittle Raids, a) The Battle of Coral Sea, d) The Battle of Midway, and c) The Battle of Guadalcanal.
Geographically, the Midway Atoll is positioned at the far northwestern end of this volcanic island chain.
What is the Hawaiiaian island chain?
This former Disney Channel star portrayed war hero Bruno Guido in the 2019 Midway film.
Who is Nick Jonas?
The USS Yorktown was successfully put to sea from the Pearl Harbor Shipyard in this many hours for the Battle of Midway.
What is 72 hours?
This Commander of Naval Station HYPO was ultimately responsible for identifying the target of Japan's next attack through a creative ruse of using a fake water shortage.
Who was Commander Joseph Rochefort?
This battle was fought and ultimately stopped the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea in May of 1942.
What is the Battle of Coral Sea?
Controlling Midway was considered vital because it put attacking enemy aircraft within striking distance of this major U.S. naval base.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This pilot, while running low on fuel, made the daring decision to alter his search course, successfully stumbling upon a Japanese cruiser that led him and the pilots he commanded directly to the Japanese Carrier Fleet.
Who was Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McClusky?
The band of this sunken battleship was stationed in Naval Station HYPO and are also credited with successfully decoding the JN-25 Japanese code.
a) USS Arizona, b) USS Oklahoma, c) USS West Virginia, d) USS California.
What is the USS California?
This Admiral was appointed as the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet following the attack on Pearl Harbor and was qualified as a submarine officer.
Who was Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (Served aboard USS Plunger, USS Snapper, USS Narwal, USS Skipjack, and USS E-1 and was later instrumental in the Navy's acquisition of the USS Nautilus.
This daring raid, which took place on April 18 1942, was noted as the first official strike on Japanese homeland by US forces.
What is the Doolittle Raids? (16 US Army Air Force B-25s departed the USS Hornet, bombed Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Osaka. Ultimately they ran out of fuel and crashed in mainland China. Most of the 80 crewmen survived)
Launched simultaneously to draw U.S. forces away from Midway, Japan also attacked these North Pacific Islands.
What are the Aleutian Islands?
The three U. S. carriers present during the Battle of Midway were the USS Hornet, USS ______, and USS _______.
What is the USS Enterprise and the USS Yorktown?
These two ships carried the commanders of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Command Task Force 16 during the Battle of Midway. (2 are required, 1 Japanese and 1 US Ship).
What are the Yamato and Enterprise.
There were two pilots credited with striking multiple carriers during the battle of Midway. One of them was Lt. Norman "Dusty" Kleiss and the other was _______.
Who is Lt. Richard H. Best? (Lt. Richard Best was the commanding officer of VB-6 and is credited with striking and fatally damaging Akagi and Hiryu. Lt. Norman Kleiss is credited with scoring 3 direct hits on Kaga and Hiryu)
This 6 month battle of attrition was fought across sea, air, and land as a direct result of the momentum gained from the Battle of Midway and was considered to be the first offensive operation of the US forces in the pacific.
What is the Battle of Guadalcanal?
Before departing to ambush the Americans, the Japanese strike force secretly set out from this island group north of Japan, known for its chilling, often foggy climate.
a) Kuril Islands, b) Okinawa, c) Spratly islands, d) Solomon islands
What are the Kuril Islands?
Early in its history as a U.S. territory, Midway atoll was primarily exploited for what natural resource, which was formed from centuries of seabird droppings.
What is guano?
These were the names of the four Japanese Carriers that were sunk during the Battle of Midway.
a) Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu.
b) Yamato, Kaga, Hiryu, and Atago.
c) Akagi, Mogami, Soryu, and Kumano.
d) Mutsu, Yamato, Hiei, Atago.
a) Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu.