battle of midway

As per thread title. The POD here is that Joe Rochefort and Bill Holmes don't come up with the water shortage ruse for whatever reason, and the identity of AF remains a mystery until Midway based patrol aircraft spot the massive Japanese armada five hundred miles out. As such, American naval...

Haven't revisited this in some time, even though I have known for some time about the one key mistake that actually caused the USS Yorktown to have been mistakenly abandoned during the battle of Midway, on June 4th, 1942. Here are links to the first two threads, so folks can follow the prior...

So, taking a look at Japan's opening moves in WWII (after the attack on the USA, all the separate wars became one big war), what if they had done something different from OTL? For the purposes of discussion, let us suppose that everything is as close to historical as reasonably possible, within...

Ok, so the historical forces remain exactly as OTL, up until the element of surprise is gone, and after that, have the US carriers all in one Task Force. So to be totally clear (I hope), the US carrier forces are sending out their first attack like they did historically, but, sometime after...

So this is my first attempt at an alternate history scenario. In this case, I have decided to go with something that has only been touched on briefly by @ Zheng He. Specifically what if USS Hornet's Air Group led by CDR Stanhope Ring didn't lead the fighters and dive bombers on the 'flight to...

Could Japan have won the Battle of Midway? How would that affect World War II?

Hello everyone, I was recently inspired by the discussion over in the battle of midway thread to ask the question. Had the USS Yorktown not been abandoned sometime in the afternoon/evening of June 4th, but rather a 200 man repair/damage control team been left aboard, could the ship have gotten...