What single event cost the IJN the Battle of Midway?

>>2663523
Not having fighters cover both the low approaches (against torpedo bombers) and the high approaches (against dive bombers). Don't send ALL of your fighters after one group of bombers, especially if it involves losing altitude; it's a lot harder to go back up than it is to go down.

>>2663523

Satan betrayed his people (the Japs) just as he will betray everyone who puts their trust in him.

Getting their carriers sunk.

>>2663523
Having their coded message decoded. We didn't fall for he Aleutian campaign and attacked their carriers while their planes were attacking Midway.

engaging in combat.

>>2663523
Nagumo the senile retard deciding to re-arm his planes.

>>2663523
None. The battle was set up so the Americans were always likely to win, and could deny a battle at will.

>>2663523
Midway was a perfect storm of many events that all came together at just the right time so that the US dive bombers hit the carriers at their most vulnerable, can't really nail it down to a single event.

>>2663564
>Don't send ALL of your fighters after one group of bombers
>muh Shattered Sword

>>2663564
It didn't really matter as CAP of early 1942 of either side was not capable of stopping dive bombers.

>>2663523
When Japan declared war on the U.S