...you care to go into detail about how battleships that weren't even deployed in the battle manage to hit the USN carriers?Suppose USA's ships got spotted before the Battle of Midway and got smacked by battleship fire. I think there was some convoluted plan and the submarines were suppose to spot the Americans.
Anyhoo, doesn't matter. The IJN doesn't have the forces to take the island. There are too many defenders, and Midway is too far from Japan to keep the fleet around long-term. It's not quite as bad an idea as an invasion of Hawaii, but up there.
If i was defedning Midway and i saw the Yamato on the horizon, hear it fire and see its shell pass over my head my white flag goes up.
Being bombarded by the Yamato is safer than being a prisoner of Imperial Japan. Probably more comfortable too. Ship bombardment never wiped out defenders. The US bombarded island after island but still had to fight bloody battles on them.