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Midway
- Order of Battle
1. Japan
Advance Expeditionary Force
1st Mobile Carrier Strike Force
Carrier division 1
Akagi
Kaga
Carrier division 2
Hiryu Hiryu
Soryu
Battleship division 3, 2nd section
Haruna
Kirishima
Cruiser division 1
Chikuma
Desdiv 4
Arashi
Nowaki
Hagikaze
Maikaze
Desdiv 10
Kazagumo
Yugumo
Makigumo
Akigumo
Desdiv 17
Isokaze
Urakaze
Hamakaze
Tanikaze
Supply Unit
Kyokuto Maru, etc
Midway Occupation Force
Batdiv 3, 1st section
Crudiv 4, 1st section
Crudiv 5
Desdiv 2
Desdiv 9
Supply Unit
Batdiv 1
Desdiv 11
Desdiv 19
Desdiv 20
2.
US Navy
United States Task Force 17 (commander:
Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher)
Task Group 17.5 (Carrier Group)
USS Yorktown
Task Group 17.2 (Cruiser Group)
USS Astoria
USS Portland
Task Group 17.4
USS Anderson
USS Gwin
USS Hughes
USS Russell
USS Hammann
USS Morris
Task Force 16 (commander: Rear Admiral
Raymond A. Spruance)
Task Group 16.5 (Carrier Group)
USS Enterprise
USS Hornet
Task Group 16.2 (Cruiser Group)
USS Atlanta
USS Minneapolis
USS New Orleans
USS Northampton
USS Pensacola
USS Vincennes
Task Group 16.4 (Destroyer Screen)
USS Phelps
USS Worden
USS Monaghan
USS Aylwin
USS Balch
USS Conyngham
USS Benham
USS Ellet
USS Maury
Oilers Group
USS Cimarron
USS Platte
USS Dewey
USS Monssen
Submarines
Task Group 7.1
USS Cachalot
USS Flying Fish
USS Tambor
USS Trout
USS Grayling
USS Nautilus
USS Grouper
USS Dolphin
USS Gato
USS Cuttlefish
USS Gudgeon
USS Grenadier
Task Group 7.2
USS Narwhal
USS Plunger
USS Trigger
Task Group 7.3
USS Tarpon
USS Finback
USS Pike
USS Growler
Midway Garrison
Air Group
Marine Aircraft Group 22
VMF-221
VMSB-241
VT-8 TBF Avenger detachment (from USS Hornet)
Detachment of 7th Army Air Force
B-26 Marauders
B-17's
Local Defenses
2nd Raider Battalion, USMC
6th Defense Battalion (Reinforced)
1st Motor Torpeado Boat Squadron
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