[fso301]

My nine year-old is obsessed with Midway

Get him a copy of Midway, the Battle That Doomed Japan by Mitsuo Fuchida.

John Toldand's But Not in Shame has good eyewitness accounts of not only Midway but many of the Pacific battles during the first six months of the war.

[75thOVI]

A better book is “Shattered Sword” by John Parchall, and Anthony Tully. They make a solid case that Fuchida may have played fast and loose with the truth. In a later account he told of how hw snuck aboard the USS Missouri to watch the Surrender Ceremony. Not bloody likely.

[diatomite]

Miracle at Midway by Gordon W. Prange is also a good Midway book that was heavily researched by the author. It was published in 1983.