On the bridge of the battleship HMS Anson, the flagship of the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet, Vice Admiral Cunningham stood behind a porthole in a crisp white general's uniform, his piercing gaze scanning the dim sea.

After several days of sailing, the fleet was now located about a hundred nautical miles due east of Midway.

So far, apart from two harassments by Japanese submarines, the fleet has not found any traces of Japanese surface ships.

According to the original plan, after waiting for nearly an hour, he could give the order to attack.

It's just that the two Japanese submarines encountered on the road should have reported the movements of their fleet to the Japanese Combined Fleet Command at this time, and the Japanese fleet might have set off at this time.

If the landing operation is launched according to the original plan, and by the time the Japanese fleet arrives, their own fleet has already left, and the marines who land on the island will face the danger of being cut off from the rear route.

Unless they can end the ground battle before the arrival of the Japanese fleet and take full control of Midway······ Well? What is that?

Lieutenant General Cunningham looked through his telescope to the left and clearly saw a tall white column of water rising above the sea.

With years of experience at sea, Cunningham quickly determined that it was the effect of a depth charge explosion.

The telegram was soon delivered to him, and a Japanese submarine was spotted in the nearby sea, and the destroyer was attacking.

Cunningham read the telegram, stopped his cranky thinking, and decisively issued a series of orders.

In the fleet, three Walrus seaplanes were ejected from each of the battleships "Anson" and "Howe" and flew to the west and southwest, respectively.

On the two Radiance-class fleet aircraft carriers, the Indomitable and the Dreadnought, and the two Independence-class light aircraft carriers USS Belauwood and USS Cowpers, which were supported by the US Navy, the "buzzing" sound of the high-speed rotation of the propellers echoed over the fleet.

In order to alleviate the logistical pressure, the two Tejas class aircraft carriers are also equipped with U.S.-supplied fighters, including F4F Night Cat fighters, SBD dreadnought dive bombers and TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft.

In less than 20 minutes, 28 F4F Wildcat fighters and 46 SBD dreadnought dive bombers took off one after another and flew as the first attack wave to Midway Island due west.

The huge group of planes had just assembled in the sky, and in the western skies of the fleet, a Type 97 torpedo plane flying from Midway turned around and fled.

Radio waves flew out of the torpedo plane, which was used as a reconnaissance plane, and sent the position and movement of the Allied fleet to the Japanese airfield on Midway.

On the Japanese airfield on Midway Island, which had been waiting for a long time, 48 warplanes were hidden near the airfield, and in a hangar built with camouflage nets and various plants, 48 warplanes drove out one after another and gathered around the runway.

Different from the mixed mode of carrier-based aircraft of the Allied fleet, among the 52 Japanese fighters on Midway, except for four Type 97 torpedo attack planes used as reconnaissance planes, the remaining 48 fighters were all Zero fighters.

The Midway airfield is too small in scale and has a limited number of aircraft, and if the previous model of mixing fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo attack planes is followed, it will only cause a dilemma in which both offensive and defensive forces are insufficient.

In the end, another senior staff officer beside Yamamoto 56, Kuroshima Kameto, came up with a brilliant (poisonous) idea, except for the four Type 97 torpedo planes used for reconnaissance, all the fighters were replaced with fighters.

The task of destroying the Allied aircraft over the unsinkable aircraft carrier Midway and destroying the Allied fleet was left to the Second Mobile Fleet under the command of Yamaguchi Tafumi.

The four Type 97 torpedo planes had already set off for a reconnaissance mission, and the 48 Zero fighters did not rush in the direction of the Cunningham fleet after taking off in an orderly manner, but hovered over Midway Island like a flock of vultures that had found dead bodies, waiting for the arrival of enemy planes.

The first attack wave of the Allied carrier-based aircraft unit, which did not know the truth, plunged headlong into the flesh mill carefully arranged by the Japanese army.

Twenty-eight F4F Wildcat fighters entered the battle first, bravely rushing to the "vulture" group entrenched over Midway, and quickly drowned in the superior number of Japanese fighters.

The fighters of the two sides split into a two-plane formation, chasing and shooting at each other on the blue canopy, bursting into clouds of black gunpowder smoke dotted the blue sky.

Soon, the fighter plane that was hit by the bullet and caught fire dragged a dazzling black smoke trail in the sky, and white parachute flowers appeared after it.

With the help of fighter cover, the SBD dreadnought dive bomber launched an attack on the Midway airfield, but as soon as the dive was launched, more than two dozen gray-black clouds of smoke rose from the originally calm ground.

Hidden in the jungle of the airfield, anti-aircraft artillery positions of 25-mm and 37-mm anti-aircraft guns opened fire one after another, mercilessly firing strings of shells at American bombers.

In the first round of barrage, four dreadnought dive bombers were shot, plunged to the ground with flames and smoke, and smashed to pieces along with the pilots.

In the face of the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, there were still dreadnought dive bombers who successfully dropped bombs, and the originally smooth airport runway turned into "pockmarks" in a series of violent explosions, and the navigation tower towering near the runway was also reduced to wood chips under the attack of heavy bombs.

One after another, the Zero fighter broke away from the battle with the F4F Wildcat fighter and turned around and rushed to the SBD dreadnought dive bomber, bringing an even more terrifying nightmare to the American pilots.

In the face of the Zero's pursuit, the dreadnought dive bomber could only rely on the rear-seat machine gun to resist powerlessly, or the wing was broken by the sharp shells, or the fuselage was hit by a bullet and caught fire, and fell to the ground in various gorgeous positions.

The fierce battle lasted less than 30 minutes, and the surviving fighters of the US military left the battle one after another and returned home, but unlike when they came, almost every returning fighter was followed by a Zero fighter.

In the face of the trailing Zero fighters, the SBD dreadnought dive bombers could not beat and run, and most of them were shot down on the way back, and only a few lucky ones escaped.

"The enemy's air defense at Midway is very strong, and the first wave of attacks is not effective, and a second wave of attacks must be launched."

Cunningham hesitated for a moment when he received the report, thinking that he had not received a warning from seaplanes or submarines that there was no Japanese surface ship force nearby, so he decisively gave the order for the second attack wave to attack.

28 F4F Wildcat fighters, covering 50 TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft, flew into the sky and flew mightily towards Midway.

In this sortie, the Avenger torpedo attack aircraft did not carry torpedoes, and on the pylons under the belly, they carried four 250-pound aerial bombs.

When the second attack wave arrived over Midway, the 31 Zero fighters that had survived the previous battle faced a superior number of enemy planes and engaged head-on in a "full and jade" attitude, and fought together with the F4F Night Cat fighters who arrived on the battlefield first.

The TBF Avenger torpedo planes that arrived later dropped bombs one after another, launching attacks on the airfield, infantry positions, barracks and other military facilities exposed on the ground on Midway.

From the ground to the sky, Midway was covered in the flames of war······