Nimitz also understood the enormous political and military implications of retaking Hawaii, so he agreed to use troops against the Hawaiian Islands as soon as possible, knowing that the Hawaiian Islands were very difficult to fight. However, considering the sturdiness and firepower of the fortress on Oahu, as well as the fact that there were more than 1,000 Japanese land-based aircraft on several nearby larger islands, Nimitz did not dare to attack Pearl Harbor directly, but chose Midway, which was more than 2,000 kilometers away, as the first target

The reason for making such a choice was mainly due to Nimitz's considerations: First, although Midway was also an important military base, it did not have a strong fortified fort like Oahu, and it was far away from several major Hawaiian islands such as Pearl Harbor, where a large number of Japanese land-based planes were beyond the reach of Midway, and although there were several small islands nearby, the United States did not develop them at the beginning, and later because Japan occupied Oahu and other major islands, the strategic significance of Midway declined. Therefore, there was no airfield to build on those small islands in order to strengthen its defense, so if the US army attacked Midway, the Japanese troops on the island could only fight alone, and the difficulty was naturally greatly reduced.

Secondly, although the value of Midway Island is far from comparable with Oahu, the large airfield on the island can accommodate 150 combat aircraft (provided that there are no strategic bombers and transport aircraft), if it can be occupied, it means that the US military can have 150 more combat aircraft in the subsequent battles, while the Japanese will have to reduce the same number, this entry and exit is 300, considering that the land airport aircraft take off and land is more convenient and convenient, its actual value is by no means less than 5 heavy aircraft carriers. Although the distance makes it difficult for Midway's land-based aircraft to be used directly to bomb Oahu and its nearby islands. However, it is still possible to take off some fighter jets to protect the aircraft carrier, which will undoubtedly be of great help in the decisive battle in the waters near the main island of Hawaii in the future.

Moreover, in addition to a large airfield, Midway can also become an advance base and material transit point for the US Pacific Fleet's counteroffensive against Japan, and the aircraft carrier formation may even cut off the sea supply lines of the Japanese army in Hawaii, making it much less difficult to recover Hawaii in the future.

However, attacking Midway first also presented a small problem, as it was farther from the continental United States (not counting Alaska) than Oahu, and the fleet had to bypass the range of Japanese land-based aircraft in Hawaii to avoid unnecessary losses, further increasing the already long distance. This is bound to greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the fleet.

In this case. Nimitz unexpectedly chose the Aleutian Islands, near the Arctic Ocean, as a springboard for this attack, partly because it was about a third of the way south from here to Midway than from the mainland. And you don't have to go through the main islands of Hawaii. It can greatly save time and fuel; The second is that although the latitude is very high. But the nearby sea is surprisingly frozen, and there are also some U.S. naval bases, so the conditions are quite good. It is also very likely that the Japanese were not aware of or neglected this point and lacked defense against the enemy from the north, although Nimitz did not pin his hopes of victory on the enemy's mistakes, but if this were the case, it would undoubtedly greatly reduce the losses of the battle

However, in the case that the Panama Canal has not yet been repaired, choosing this route means that the newly formed huge fleet needs to bypass most of the American continent, which will inevitably take much longer, but this will give the crew and pilots more time to run-in, and further increase the chances of the US military winning the Battle of Midway. But the confident Nimitz did not expect that the Japanese had already set a trap at Midway for him to drill

Whether in history or in this time and space, the code compiled on the basis of the Indian tribal language was only used by the US Marine Corps, while the US Navy's telecommunications code was compiled by a cipher machine (Note 1), but with the Marine Corps' code as a reference, coupled with the powerful computing power of the transistor computer, the US Navy's code compilation law was finally understood by China. will be quickly deciphered by Chinese telecommunications experts. At first, the Chinese government was worried that the Axis powers would be too powerful to tell the Japanese, but the U.S. Navy suddenly added 12 fleet aircraft carriers, the total strength of the U.S. military exceeded 6 million (this is on the basis of the hundreds of thousands of losses since entering the war), and the total number of aircraft exceeded 40,000, ranking first in Shijie (also on the premise of staggering losses). The shocking news of more than 20,000 tanks (not counting armored vehicles and self-propelled guns) quickly prompted the Chinese government to make a decision

But to be honest, even if they didn't decipher the U.S. Navy's code, the Japanese were still able to confirm that the U.S. military was targeting Midway, for the simple reason that the Marines couldn't do without the island, so they could also roughly understand the next target of the U.S. military in the Pacific based on their code. However, even if they were able to set up an ambush in the waters near Midway Island even if they gained intelligence superiority, the Japanese navy's top brass could not help but be a little apprehensive, because the current US Pacific Fleet is too strong, with as many as 12 aircraft carriers in the fleet alone, and the number of aircraft carried by US aircraft carriers has always been terrifying, with a total number of carrier-based aircraft ranging from 1,000 to 800, and with the US military's new carrier-based aircraft equipped with a large number of troops, its actual combat capability is absolutely unprecedented. In the face of such a formidable enemy, even if the Japanese Navy still has 10 aircraft carriers and 150 land-based aircraft from Midway to help them fight, they are not sure of victory, even if they successfully use their intelligence superiority to successfully gain the first hand

Note 1: The U.S. Army is another set of codes, which shows the caution of the Americans, and these are also based on the fact that the U.S. code has never been deciphered during World War II, which shows that there is indeed a big gap between the Axis and the United States in terms of intelligence work. The intelligence services of the Soviet Union and Britain, the other two main forces on the Allies side, were also excellent, and the Axis side was dwarfed by comparison. The reason for this is not entirely caused by jishu or luck, the leaders and henchmen of the Axis who all think about "snakes swallowing elephants" have never thought and dare not think that they will fail, and this is the real root, because thinking about the possibility of bad things in advance is the correct attitude to engage in intelligence work, and these two modes of thinking are completely opposite, and it is difficult to exist at the same time (to be continued......