Official
After-Action Reports
UPDATED: 20 May 2008
The
following are links to various official after-action reports written by
commanding officers or senior surviving officers of the various commands
(unless otherwise indicated).
Some
of these files are in .pdf format, which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Battle of Midway reports not listed here that can be found on the Internet or
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here.
Link and file credits:
U.S. Naval Historical Center
USS Enterprise (CV-6) Organization
MSGT Walt Grist, USMC-Ret
Eric Mitchell, www.pby.com
FLEET & TASK FORCE COMMANDERS
ADM Nimitz (re Japanese
BOM prisoners)
USS YORKTOWN (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CAPT
Buckmaster)
VB-3 (.pdf file)
VB-5 (a.k.a.
"VS-5") (.pdf file)
USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6)
USS Enterprise, 1 of
2 (CAPT Murray)
USS Enterprise, 2 of 2
(CAPT Murray)
USS HORNET (CV-8)
OTHER SHIPS & SQUADRONS
Destroyer Squadron 6
(CAPT Sauer)
MIDWAY-BASED COMMANDS
MAG 22 (commanding
officer's report) (.pdf file)
MAG 22 (executive
officer's report) (.pdf file)
VMF-221 (.pdf
file)
VMSB-241
(.pdf file)
VT-8 TBF Detachment
(.pdf file)*
"Marines at
Midway" (article by Robert Heinl for USMC Historical Branch)*
*These are media
articles rather than official reports.
JAPANESE
The Japanese
Story of the Battle of Midway (the Nagumo Report)
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