Good article! Thanks. We owe those guys a LOT.
Have you read “Shattered Sword”? I highly recommend it for insight into the battle from the Japanese angle.
http://www.shatteredswordbook.com/
Yep, anyone that hasn’t read “Shattered Sword” doesn’t really know anything about Midway.
In sum, Midway was no miracle. We won Midway because we were better across the board. Better ships, better aircraft, better damage control, etc.
And we weren’t really outnumbered in the key things that matter (total aircraft,etc.) They had one more CV but we had three CVs and an additional unsinkable CV (Midway.)
The really interesting thing is that even if we’d lost the Naval battle, it’s overwhelmingly likely the huge numbers of well-trained, heavily-armed, and dug-in Marines on Midway would have annihilated the Japanese invasion force and they could not have captured the island.