[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The pretty much total absence of damage control ability lost the Battle of Midway for the Japanese."

You got that right, on the U.S. side we did such a good job with damage control on the Yorktown. The Japanese thought they sunk it at the battle of Corral Sea. We get it back to Pearl and got it underway in time for the Battle of Midway. At Midway, the Japanese hit it again and it was on fire. They thought they sunk it again. We put it out the fires and got it operational and underway so well that the Japanese planes thought it was a different ship on another pass and attacked it again eventually sinking it. They never dreamed that anyone could get a ship repaired and underway like we did after Corral Sea and at Midway.

[Vanders9]

Well, it was lack of technology generally that cost the Japs the battle of Midway. No radar, no sonar and naval codes cracked by the US Navy were all at least equally important to poor damage control.

Incidentally, did you know that after Midway and Guadalcanal, the two remaining US Fleet carriers were so beat up and so in desperate need of refit and repair that the US Navy sent them into the dockyards one at a time, and tapped the Brits for a replacement until they were repaired? Look up “USS Robin”.