Interesting find on YouTube about Midway. Video and commentary on the battle from the point of view of the Japanese. Minute to minute decisions made and why they were made.
If it's the same one, I watched that last year. Given what the Japanese commanders thought (thought they knew) and casting aside any idea that maybe they'd sailed right into an ambush, and, for that matter, given their by-the-book (and IMHO land-based thinking, odd in a maritime people) approach, they made their decisions. Once the Yorktown was spotted, the overcast prevented an accurate ID, but the presence of a battleship probably needn't have led to the swapping out of contact bombs for torpedoes. Alacrity was called for, and that just wasn't the Japanese way.
And as we know, after the US squadrons flying off Midway had spent themselves for an hour or so, the US counterattack from our mere three carriers turned the entire battle upside down in a matter of about 30 minutes, with half the Japanese decks stricken and doomed in the first five minutes.
Now, here's where I'd normally go rambling off into some kind of "what-if" sidebar, but I'm not gonna, that's a break for everyone reading this. :^)
The defeat at Midway was so devastating and humiliating, the Japanese gov't didn't fully disclose to their public what had happened until 1955.