Midway order of battle

This is the order of battle for the World War II Battle of Midway, which took place 4–7 June 1942.

Overview

Ships involved in the Midway operation[1][2]

Imperial Japanese Navy Ship Type United States Navy
Hiryū | Kaga | Sōryū CV Hornet | Yorktown
Hōshō CVL None
Kamikawa Maru | Chiyoda | Nisshin CVS None
Haruna | Hiei | Hyūga[3] | Ise[3] | Kirishima | Kongō | Mutsu | Nagato | Yamashiro[3] | Yamato BB None
Chikuma | Chōkai | Haguro | Kumano | Mikuma | Mogami | Myōkō | Suzuya | Tone CA Minneapolis | New Orleans | Northampton | Pensacola | Portland | Vincennes
Kitakami[3] | Nagara | Ōi[3] | Sendai | Yura CL Atlanta
Amagiri[3] | Amatsukaze | Arare | Arashi | Arashio | Asagiri[3] | Asashio | Asagumo | Ayanami | Fubuki | Hagikaze | Hamakaze | Harusame | Hatsukaze | Hatsuyuki | Hayashio | Isokaze | Isonami | Kagerō | Kasumi | Kazagumo | Kuroshio | Maikaze | Makigumo | Minegumo | Mikazuki | Murakumo | Murasame | Natsugumo | Nowaki | Oyashio | Samidare | Shikinami | Shiranui | Shirakumo[3] | Shirayuki | Tanikaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Uranami | Yūdachi | Yūgiri[3] | Yūgumo | Yūkaze | Yukikaze DD Anderson | Balch | Benham | Blue | Clark | Conyngham | Dewey | Ellet | Gwin| Hammann | Hughes | Maury | Monaghan | Monssen | Morris | Phelps | Russell | Ralph Talbot | Worden
I-15 | I-17 | I-19 | I-25 | I-26 | I-121 | I-122 | I-123 | I-156 | I-157 | I-158 | I-159 | I-162 | I-164 | I-165 | I-166 | I-168 | I-169 | I-171 | I-174 | I-175 | Submarine Cuttlefish | Dolphin | Finback | Flying Fish | Gato | Grayling | Grenadier | Grouper | Growler | Gudgeon | Narwhal | Nautilus | Pike | Plunger | Tambor | Tarpon | Trigger | Trout
Genyo | Kenyo | Kukoyu | Kyokuto | Naruto | Nichiei | Nippon | San Clemente[3] | Sata | Shinkoku | Toa[3] | Toei | Tōhō | Tsurumi AO Guadalupe | Platte | Kaloli
No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 34 | No. 35 PT PT-21 | PT-22 | PT-24 | PT-25 | PT-26 | PT-27 | PT-28 | PT-29 | PT-30 | PT-42 | Crystal | YP-284 | YP-290 | YP-345 | YP-350
Asaka Maru | Awata Maru AMC None
Soya AE None
Argentina Maru | Azuma Maru | Brazil Maru | Goshu Maru | Hakusan Maru | Hokuroku Maru | Kano Maru | Keiyo Maru | Kinugasa Maru | Kirishima Maru | Kiyosumi Maru | Kumagawa Maru | Meiyo Maru | Nankai Maru | Toa Maru No. 2 Go | Tōkō Maru No. 2 Go | Yamafuku Maru | Zenyo Maru AP / AK None
Tama Maru No. 3 | Tama Maru No. 5 | Showa Maru No. 7 | Showa Maru No. 8 | Hakuhō Maru | Kaihō Maru | Shunkotsu Maru AMS None
CH-16 | CH-17 | CH-18 SC None
Akashi AR None
Magane Maru ML None
None AT Vireo
None AVD Ballard
105 x Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" | 97 x Aichi D3A "Val" | 101 x Nakajima B5N "Kate" A/C 88 x Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" | 129 x Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" | 44 x Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator" | 32 x Consolidated PBY Catalina | 6 x Grumman TBF "Avenger" | 4 x Martin B-26 "Marauder" | 19 x Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress"

Japan

The Japanese forces (the "Combined Fleet") actually consisted of two different fleets detailed to two separate operations, namely Operation AL (for the Aleutians) and Operation MI (for Midway). The list below shows all ships assigned to Operation MI, however only Nagumo's First Carrier Striking Force and Kurita's Midway Support Force were actually involved in the Battle of Midway.

First Fleet
  • First Fleet Main Force
    • 1st Battleship Division (Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet in Yamato):
    • Carrier Group:
      • CVE Hōshō (Capt. Kaoru Umetani)
        • Air Unit: 8 Yokosuka B4Y1 'Jean' biplane torpedo bombers (Lieutenant Yoshiaki Irikiin)
      • DD Yūkaze (Lt. Cmdr. Shizuka Kajimoto)
    • Special Force:
    • Screening Force
      • 3rd Destroyer Squadron (Rear Adm. Shintaro Hashimoto in Sendai):
        • CL Sendai (Capt. Nobue Morishita)
        • 11th Destroyer Division (Capt. Kichiro Shoji):
        • 19th Destroyer Division (Capt. Ranji Oe):
    • 1st Supply Group (Capt. Shigeyasu Nishioka in Naruto):
      • AO Naruto (Capt. Nishioka)
      • AO Toei Maru
  • First Carrier Striking Force / First Air Fleet (Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo)
    • 1st Carrier Division (Vice Adm. Nagumo in Akagi):
    • 2nd Carrier Division (Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi† in Hiryū)
      • Hiryū (sunk/scuttled) (Capt. Tomeo Kaku†)
        • Air Unit (Lt. Joichi Tomonaga†):
          • 18 Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 21 'Zeke' fighters (Lt. Shigeru Mori†)
          • 18 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers (Lt. Michio Kobayashi†)
          • 18 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers (Lt. Rokuro Kikuchi†)
      • Sōryū (sunk/scuttled) (Capt. Ryusaku Yanagimoto†)
        • Air Unit (Lt. Cmdr. Takashige Egusa):
          • 18 Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 21 'Zeke' fighters (Lt. Masaji Suganami)
          • 18 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers (Lt. Masai Ikeda)
          • 18 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers (Lt. Heijiro Abe)
          • 2 Yokosuka D4Y1 'Judy' dive bombers
    • Support Group
      • 8th Cruiser Division (Rear Adm. Hiroaki Abe in Tone):
        • CA Tone (Capt. Tametsugu Okada)
        • CA Chikuma (Capt. Keizo Komura)
          • Air Unit: 3 Aichi E13A1 Type 0 'Jake' float planes, 2 Nakajima E8N2 Type 95 'Dave' float planes
      • 3rd Battleship Division, 2nd Section (Rear Adm. Tamotsu Takama in Haruna):
        • Haruna (Rear Adm. Takama) – 3 Nakajima E8N2 Type 95 'Dave' float planes
        • Kirishima (Capt. Sanji Iwabuchi) – 3 Nakajima E8N2 Type 95 'Dave' float planes
    • Screening Force
      • 10th Destroyer Squadron (Rear Adm. Susumu Kimura in Nagara):
        • CL Nagara (Capt. Toshio Naoi)
        • 4th Destroyer Division (Capt. Kōsaku Aruga):
        • 10th Destroyer Division (Capt. Toshio Abe):
        • 17th Destroyer Division (Capt. Masayuki Kitamura):
    • Supply Group 1 (Capt. Masanao Ota in Kyokuto Maru):
      • DD Akigumo (Cmdr. Shohei Soma)
      • AO Kyokuto Maru (Capt. Ota)
      • AO Shinkoku Maru (Capt. Tokugyo Ito)
      • AO Tōhō Maru (Capt. Kazutaka Niimi)
      • AO Nippon Maru (Capt. Hironosuke Ueda)
      • AO Kokuyo Maru (Capt. Toraji Hidai)

Second Fleet (Midway Invasion Force)
  • Second Fleet Main Body (Vice Adm. Nobutake Kondō[4] in Atago)
    • 3rd Battleship Division less 2nd Section (Rear Adm. Gunichi Mikawa):
    • 4th Cruiser Division less 2nd Section (Vice Adm. Kondo):
    • 5th Cruiser Division (Vice Adm. Takeo Takagi):
      • CA Myōkō (Capt. Teruhiko Miyoshi)
      • CA Haguro (Capt. Tomokazu Mori)
    • Screening Force
      • 4th Destroyer Squadron (Rear Adm. Shoji Nishimura in CL Yura):
        • CL Yura (Capt. Shiro Sato)
        • 3rd Destroyer Division (Capt. Ranji Oe):
          • Murasame (Lt. Cmdr. Naoji Suenaga)
          • Samidare (Cmdr. Takisaburo Matsubara)
          • Harusame (Lt. Cmdr. Masao Kamiyama)
          • Yūdachi (Cmdr. Kiyoshi Kamiyama)
        • 9th Destroyer Division (Capt. Yasuo Sato):
          • Asagumo (Cmdr. Toru Iwahashi)
          • Minegumo (Lt. Cmdr. Yasuatsu Suzuki)
          • Natsugumo (Lt. Cmdr. Moritaro Tsukamoto)
    • Carrier Group (Capt. Sueo Obayashi):
      • CVL Zuihō (Capt. Obayashi)
        • 12 Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 21 'Zeke' fighters (Lt. Saneyasu Hidaka)
        • 12 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers (Lt. Kaji Matsuo)
      • DD Mikazuki (Lt. Cmdr. Saneho Maeda)
    • Supply Group: (Capt. Jiro Murao in Sata):
      • AO Sata (Capt. Murao)
      • AO Tsurumi (Capt. Toshizo Fujita)
      • AO Genyo Maru (Capt. Shigetaro Ogawa)
      • AO Kenyo Maru (Capt. Yoshio Kanemasu)
      • AR Akashi (Capt. Tsunekichi Fukuzawa)
  • Midway Occupation Force (Rear Adm. Raizo Tanaka)
    • Transport Group carrying about 5000 troops under Capt. Minoru Ōta IJN and Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki IJA
      • Transports:
        • Kiyosumi Maru (Capt. Seiichiro Kito)
        • Keiyo Maru (Capt. Masamichi Ikeuchi)
        • Zenyo Maru
        • Goshu Maru (Capt. Hiyoshi Furuya)
        • Toa Maru No. 2 Go
        • Kano Maru (Capt. Tomosaburo Miura)
        • Argentina Maru (Cmdr. Takeshi Watanabe)
        • Hokuroku Maru (Capt. Hiotaro Tsukagoshi)
        • Brazil Maru (Capt. Kyujiro Jintsu)
        • Kirishima Maru (Capt. Hiroshi Okubo)
        • Azuma Maru (Capt. Nobuyoshi Morikawa)
        • Nankai Maru (Capt. Akira Maki)
      • Patrol Boats:
      • AO Akebono Maru (damaged by torpedo night of June 3–4) (Capt. Miki Otsuka)
    • Escort Force (Rear Adm. Tanaka in CL Jintsu):
      • CL Jintsu (Capt. Torazo Kozai)
      • 15th Destroyer Division (Capt. Torajiro Sato):
      • 16th Destroyer Division (Capt. Shiro Shibuya):
      • 18th Destroyer Division (Capt. Yoshito Miyasaka):
    • Seaplane Tender Group (Rear Adm. Ruitaro Fujita in Chitose)
      • 11th Seaplane Tender Division
        • CVS Chitose (Capt. Tamotsu Furukawa)
        • AV Kamikawa Maru (Capt. Tarohachi Shinoda)
          • 8 Nakajima A6M2-N 'Rufe' floatplane fighters
          • 4 Aichi E13A 'Jake' scout floatplanes
      • DD Hayashio (Cmdr. Kiyoshi Kaneda)
      • Patrol Boat #35 (carrying troops)
  • Midway Support Force (Vice Adm. Takeo Kurita in Kumano)
    • 7th Cruiser Division (Vice Adm. Kurita):
    • 8th Destroyer Division (Cmdr. Nobuki Ogawa):
    • Attached Oiler:
      • AO Nichiei Maru (Capt. Matsushi Yamamoto)
  • Minesweeper Group (Capt. Sadatomo Miyamoto)
    • 4 Auxiliary Minesweepers:
      • Tama Maru #3 (Lt. (j.g.) Atsutoshi Yamaguchi)
      • Tama Maru #5 (Lt. Akira Takato)
      • Showa Maru #7 (Lt. Teruhisa Takahashi)
      • Showa Maru #8 (Lt. (j.g.) Kiichi Sasaki)
    • 3 Subchasers:
    • 1 Supply ship:
      • Soya (Cmdr. Toshi Kubota)
    • 2 Cargo ships:
      • Meiyo Maru (Capt. Hisao Koizumi)
      • Yamafuku Maru (Capt. Torao Honda)
  • Advance (Submarine) Force (Sixth Fleet) (Vice Adm. Teruhisa Komatsu in Katori at Kwajalein):
    • CL Katori (Capt. Noboru Owada)
    • 3rd Submarine Squadron (Rear Adm. Chimaki Kona in Rio de Janeiro Maru at Kwajalein):
      • 19th Submarine Division (Capt. Ryojiro Ono):
        • I-156 (Lt. Cmdr. Katsuo Ohashi)
        • I-157 (Lt. Cmdr. Sakae Nakajima)
        • I-158 (Lt. Cmdr. Soshichi Kitamura)
        • I-159 (Lt. Cmdr. Tamori Yoshimatsu)
      • 13th Submarine Division (Capt. Takeji Miyazaki):
        • I-121 (Lt. Cmdr. Yasuo Fujimori)
        • I-122 (Lt. Cmdr. Sadatoshi Norita)
        • I-123 (Lt. Cmdr. Toshitake Ueno)
      • 30th Submarine Division (Capt. Maseo Teraoka):

Shore-based Air Force

Northern Area Force
  • Fifth Fleet Main Body (Vice Adm. Boshirō Hosogaya in Nachi):
    • CA Nachi (Capt. Takahiko Kiyota)
    • DD Inazuma (Lt. Cmdr. Hajime Takeuchi)
    • DD Ikazuchi (Lt. Cmdr. Shunsaku Kudo)
    • Supply Group:
      • AO Fujisan Maru (Capt. Kikuta Maki)
      • AO Nissan Maru (Capt. Hachiro Naotsuka)
      • AC Muroto (Capt. Masaji Yamagata)
      • AP Akashisan Maru (Capt. Yoshio Hosoya)
      • AF Tōkō Maru No. 2 Go
  • Second Carrier Striking Force (Rear Adm. Kakuji Kakuta in Ryujo)
    • 4th Carrier Division (Rear Adm. Kakuta):
      • CVL Ryūjō (Capt. Tadeo Kato)
        • Air Unit (Lt. Masayuki Yamagami):
      • CV Jun'yō (Capt. Shizue Isii)
        • Air Unit (Lt. Yoshio Shiga):
          • 24 Mitsubishi A6M Zero Type 21 'Zeke' fighters (Lt. Shiga)
          • 15 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers (Lt. Zenji Abe)
    • 4th Cruiser Division, 2nd Section (Capt. Shunsaku Nabeshima in Maya):
      • CA Takao (Capt. Bunji Asakura)
      • CA Maya (Capt. Nabeshima)
    • 7th Destroyer Division (Capt. Kaname Konishi):
      • Akebono (Lt. Cmdr. Minoru Nakagawa)
      • Ushio (Lt. Cmdr. Yoshitake Uesugi)
      • Sazanami (Lt. Cmdr. Hiroshi Uwai)
    • AO Teiyo Maru (Capt. Katasuke Tanaka)
  • Aleutian Support Force (Vice Adm. Shiro Takasu in Hyūga)
    • 2nd Battleship Division (Vice Adm. Takasu):
    • Screening Force (Rear Adm. Fukuji Kishi in Kitakami)
      • 9th Cruiser Division (Rear Adm. Kishi):
        • CL Kitakami (Capt. Saiji Norimitsu)
        • CL Ōi (Capt. Moichi Narita)
      • 20th Destroyer Division (Capt. Yuji Yamada):
      • 24th Destroyer Division (Capt. Yasuji Hirai):
      • 27th Destroyer Division (Capt. Matake Yoshimura):
    • Supply Group (Capt. Matsuo Eguchi):
      • AO San Clemente Maru (Capt. Eguchi)
      • AO Toa Maru (Capt. Yataro Yokohama)
  • Attu Invasion Force (Rear Adm. Sentaro Omori in Abukuma):
    • CL Abukuma (Capt. Seiroku Murayama)
    • 21st Destroyer Division (Capt. Toshio Shimizu):
    • Magane Maru Minelayer (Capt. Heiji Sasaki)
    • AP Kinugasa Maru (Capt. Naoshi Arima carrying 1200 army troops under Major Matsutoshi Hozumi)
  • Kiska Invasion Force (Capt. Takeji Ono in Kiso):
    • 21st Cruiser Division (Capt. Ono)
      • CL Kiso (Capt. Ono)
      • CL Tama (Capt. Masaharu Kawabata)
      • Asaka Maru (Auxiliary Cruiser) (Capt. Jiro Ban)
      • Awata Maru (Auxiliary Cruiser) (Capt. Kikuta Maki)
    • Screening Force
      • 6th Destroyer Division (Capt. Yusuke Tamada):
    • 13th Minesweeper Division (Capt. Toshio Mitsuka):
    • Transports:
      • Hakusan Maru (Capt. Hareyoshi Goto) carrying 550 troops under Lt. Cmdr. Hifumi Mukai
      • Kumagawa Maru (Capt. Shiro Yoshida) carrying 700 labor troops with construction equipment
  • Submarine Detachment
    • 1st Submarine Squadron (Rear Adm. Shigeaki Yamakazi):
      • I-9 (Cmdr. Akiyoshi Fujii)
      • 2nd Submarine Division (Capt. Hiroshi Imazato):
        • I-15 (Cmdr. Nobuo Ishikawa)
        • I-17 (Cmdr. Kozo Nishino)
        • I-19 (Cmdr. Shogo Narahara)
      • 4th Submarine Division (Capt. Mitsuru Nagai):
        • I-25 (Cmdr. Meiji Tagami)
        • I-26 (Cmdr. Minoru Yokota)
  • Aleutian Seaplane Tender Force (Capt. Keiichi Ujuku):

United States

The US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas were under the overall command of Admiral Chester Nimitz.[5]

Carrier Strike Force

Task Force 17 (Rear Adm. Frank J. Fletcher in Yorktown)

Task Force 16 (Rear Adm. Raymond A. Spruance in Enterprise)

Submarines Operational command under Rear Admiral Robert H. English (Commander, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet) at Pearl Harbor.

Midway Garrison

Deployed along lesser reefs and islands of the Hawaiian Group
  • Laysan Island
    • patrol boat YP-290

Midway Refueling Unit


The military forces at the immediate point of tactical contact (i.e. not including support formations) are described below.

Aircraft

American Forces

Naval Air Station (NAS) Midway operated:[8]

United States Navy

United States Army Air Forces

United States Marine Corps

Task Force 17:

Yorktown: 77 aircraft (sunk)

Task Force 16:

Enterprise: 78 aircraft

Hornet: 77 aircraft

Japanese Forces

The Japanese carriers of the Striking Force operated:

Akagi: 60 aircraft (sunk)

Kaga: 74 aircraft (sunk)

Hiryū: 57 aircraft (sunk)

Sōryū: 57 aircraft (sunk) [9]

(Note: These figures include 21 operational Zero fighters of the 6th Air Group being ferried to Midway by the carriers.)

Footnotes

    References
    1. http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/aftermidway.aspx
    2. Spennemann, Dirk HR (June 2009). "The Cultural Landscape of the World War II Battlefield of Kiska, Aleutian Islands" (PDF). National Park Service.
    3. Part of the Aleutian's Support Force: These ships detached from the Main Body before the Midway action commenced
    4. L, Klemen (1999–2000). "Vice-Admiral Nobutake Kondō". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942.
    5. "Battle of Midway". World War 2 Facts. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
    6. "Midway Order of Battle". NavWeaps.com. NavWeaps.com. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
    7. THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY INCLUDING THE ALEUTIAN PHASE. U.S. Naval War College. 1948. p. 120. Meanwhile, at 1920 CNAS Midway decided to employ his motor torpedo boats as an attack squadron and sent a squadron of nine MTB's from Midway and two MTB's from Kure Island to attack the task force containing the burning carriers. They were unable to locate the target. With the coming of daylight they commenced their return to Midway.*
    8. "ONI Review of Midway". ONI Review of Midway. iBiblio.org. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
    9. "After Midway". Military History Online. militaryhistoryonline.com. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
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