Part II. The Battles for Midway and the Aleutians
JAPANESE STRATEGY
The successful record of the Imperial Japanese Combined Fleet against the combined American, British, and Dutch fleets following Pearl Harbor must have mitigated Japanese disappointment that in the attack on 7 December 1941 the Striking Force failed to sink or damage a single U.S. carrier. It was primarily the objective of drawing out destroying the U.S. carriers that prompted Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet (CINC Combined), to revive a earlier plan for the capture of Midway and resubmit it to the Navy General and Imperial General Staffs.[114]
In Yamamoto's view, possession of this island base, along with Wake and the Marcus Islands, allowed Japan ...
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