![]() It was intended only for the highest echelons in the Japanese Navy and Government, and was guarded very closely throughout the war. ![]() There is nothing to indicate that the Japanese were not perfectly frank in this report. It must be remembered that the war diaries of many of the ships engaged, their charts and other valuable papers were lost as a result of the ships having become "inoperational," in the Japanese euphemism. The report was prepared in the first place under difficulties. ![]() On the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Midway, the Office of Naval Intelligence publishes the official Japanese action report of this engagement, recently translated under the supervision of the Naval Analysis Division, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, and here available in English for the first time.Īlthough this document is not perfectly complete (part IV for example is missing), it is believed that nothing of any importance will be discovered in the future to change the story in any of its essential details. ![]()
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