Yung author hindsight what, in fact Nagumo received after the first time that the US warships can not wait for the message to determine if there is the presence of the aircraft carrier, directly off the second wave of attack US warships say
. 7:30 pm, the second wave of attack group is not yet complete change bombs, the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft sent back news that US troops found a large-scale fleet, but did not say whether there are aircraft carriers, which leads to clouds in the south continue to investigate whether there are requirements reconnaissance aircraft carrier existence, change and stop playing the work in progress, and so the confirmation message over before making a decision (so do the things to do and clean, if there reconnaissance aircraft carriers do not determine the first time, leaders have to ask again to confirm? Nagumo here is the distress, not only to the bombing of Midway, but also take care of the US aircraft carrier, a bit powerless).
Summarize this war, remove 1: 4 aircraft carrier, the US military lost 147 fighters, the Japanese lost 332. Above all, the loss of four aircraft carriers are the main carriers combined fleet, the whole of World War II, the Japanese army has a total of 25 aircraft, remove it lasts for more than half a light escort carrier, the main force will then be 10 vessels, equivalent to one-third of the main loss run out. The pilot also lost a combined fleet of the most elite air force. In addition, those feint Aleutian Yamamoto and the so-called main fleet come do not know, might as well let them help with the attack Midway, so clouds in the south of the main attack US aircraft carriers can concentrate instead around tangle.
In this way, all of a sudden the Pacific military strength is reversed before the irresistible force of Japan had turned defensive.