We forget how how so many things had to go right including getting the Yorktown out there and including luck
For Midway to be successful
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Three carriers to four, with the Japanese having a qualitative edge in most respects, including the most experienced and best flight crews launching off their carriers. Their planes had a larger flight radius. US torpedoes weren’t reliable until sometime in 1943, “just use them, the torpedoes are fine” until then.
Midway played the role of the fourth US carrier, which alleviated the flight radius problem. Capture and/or surrender was considered dishonorable by the Japanese, so after their carriers went down, their best option was to ditch as close as they could to a retreating Japanese vessel — they couldn’t land on Midway.
Attacking the US was the greatest military blunder, not only of WWII, but of all military history, IMHO.