This battle saw the second engagement of the USS Yorktown, which had sustained severe damage during the Battle of Coral Sea one month earlier.
This battle saw the second engagement of the USS Yorktown, which had sustained severe damage during the Battle of Coral Sea one month earlier. This battle started as a Japanese plan to lure American forces into a trap. Thanks to advanced warning by superior intelligence gathering, Admiral Nimitz only lost one American Carrier and one American Destroyer, while four enemy carriers and an enemy heavy cruiser were destroyed. Led by the Enterprise and by the ultimately doomed Yorktown, this decisive American victory came almost exactly six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. For ten points, name this military engagement that saw United States Naval forces protect an outer Hawaiian atoll with the titular American base.
This battle saw the second engagement of the USS Yorktown, which had sustained severe damage during the Battle of Coral Sea one month earlier.
The Battle of {Midway}